Debra W. Childers
Shadows and Light Creative Services

Debra Childers is a published textbook author, as well as features writer. Debra has

contributed to several editions of the widely adopted college textbook, Basic Marketing, by Drs. Perreault, McCarthy and Cannon. Her passion for teaching and marketing are perfectly

integrated into dynamic videos for college classroom instruction in the U.S. and abroad.

Ms. Childers writes for NFocus magazine, whose mission is to highlight benevolence and charitable achievement in Louisville, KY.

When she isn’t writing, producing, editing marketing materials, or extending her

relationships with media around the world, she works with Life In Abundance raising funds for some of the world’s poorest men, women and children living in thirteen African nations.



A New Model for Mission Work

I dialed the country code for Kenya at seven am on a blazing hot Tuesday. Dr. Muindi, her mellifluous voice, brushed with an elegant British accent, transported me to the nation of Kenya and into the hearts and spirits of some of Africa’s poorest people. When she spoke, I was
bathed in the transforming presence of joy. “I went to medical school in the capital city of Kenya, Nairobi,” she told me. (more....PDF)

mPower: Global Health Misson Work

Her door is open, afternoon sunlight streams across the floor. Linda Webster, Executive Director of mPower, rises to greet me, wrapping
me in a warm embrace. Her feet are shod in the practical footwear favored by those who regularly travel the globe. Her well worn jeans and delicate cotton blouse hang on her slender frame.  As I search her serene and lovely face, the intensity of her purpose that electrifies
the space between us. (...more PDF)

The Shawnee Christian
Healthcare Center

I met the “first lady of Shawnee” on a sweltering Tuesday morning. The elegant and genteel Ruth French, seemingly “wilt free” despite the intense
temperature and humidity, was weeding and gathering tomatoes and squash from the Shawnee community Garden of Principles. The principles articulate seven tenets of Kwanzaa: unity, selfdetermination, collective work and
responsibility, cooperative economics,
purpose, creativity and faith. (...more PDF)

One Special Night to Shine

An autumn moon will hang in the sky, suspended by the fingers of its Creator on the night of October 7. Beneath its watchful gaze
hundreds of our community’s most vulnerable adults, along with their escorts, will roll, stroll and tread across hundreds of yards of red carpet. For most, it will be the first evening in their lives to mix and mingle with “celebrities.” Many of the ladies have never donned an evening gown, had their hair coiffed or their nails manicured. 5mb (...more PDF)