Celebrating Ten Years of Echoes Magazine

Amid job loss and eviction, Lisa Lewis had one goal—to give her daughter a normal childhood.

In February 2017, Lisa Lewis and her daughter, Emmaly, sat cuddled up sharing a blanket on the wooden bench of the Headwaters pavilion.

That weekend, the Laity Lodge Family Camp Roundup speaker was a young woman who had previously experienced a season of homelessness. She told the story of how she’d lost everything—her husband, her home, her stability—but somehow found a strength and a hope in that dark valley. A dark valley Lewis and her daughter were currently walking through.