#204: Hostess with the Mostess with Meg Duerksen
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt called to do something for your community? Whether it’s cultivating a craft weekend with strangers or caring for tiny sweet foster babies, Meg Duerksen is the hostess with the mostess. Meg is a girl who turned “you know what would be a good idea” into an adult Barbie dream house and boy are we glad she did! She is the creator of Camp Create at the Whatever Craft House in Newton, Kansas and the keeper of the instagram famous rainbow stairs. Meg doesn’t just keep a great house and whip up killer margaritas, she has a HUGE heart and shared with us why being a foster parent was a great fit for her family.
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:-
how and why Meg opened the Whatever Craft House
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how God is using Meg’s love and talent for crafting in a way she never expected
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Meg’s experience with and heart for foster care
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| 0:00.0 | The Ayrlingus Black Friday sale is now on. |
| 0:03.2 | Fly direct from Manchester to New York, Orlando and Barbados with 100 pounds off return flights. |
| 0:09.9 | Relax with the care and comfort that comes with flying Aerlingus and enjoy tasty meals and hours of in-flight entertainment on board. |
| 0:18.5 | Book now at Aerlingus.com. Hurry, Black Friday sail ends midnightends midnight, Monday, November 27th. |
| 0:24.0 | Arelingus, you're very welcome. |
| 0:26.0 | Tease and see supply, travel between December 1st and March 31st. |
| 0:30.0 | The other day I was thinking about how much I apologize for things that I really shouldn't. |
| 0:36.2 | Like some things are just not, you don't have to always say, I'm sorry if it's an accident. |
| 0:42.3 | Like you can acknowledge it it but I feel like I'm |
| 0:45.5 | always saying I'm sorry mostly at work like I'm in the people and just constantly |
| 0:50.2 | I'm sorry for this but don't. of my |
| 0:53.7 | someone had said something the other day like I know you're gonna say I'm sorry for this but |
| 0:54.6 | don't I just want to tell you blah blah blah blah I'm like oh maybe I do do that |
| 0:58.9 | too often I was running and there was a dog that was barking at me with his owner and I was like I'm sorry buddy I was like Katie |
| 1:09.2 | He's applies to a dog that you don't even know for no reason like so funny. |
| 1:14.8 | Dog spark I'm also allowed to be here. |
| 1:17.8 | You're allowed. |
| 1:19.0 | Do you want to apologize to a dog and how dumb |
| 1:21.8 | must that person |
| 1:23.0 | of the dog I was. |
| 1:24.0 | They're like, if she interpreted, |
| 1:26.0 | I'm sorry wrong. |
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