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Hello brothers and sisters,
My husband Mark and I (Dawn DesJardins) are looking for a Christian community to join — ideally within about an hour of the ocean, and somewhere near horses.
A little about us: together we've raised seven children. Our youngest, Emma, is 10 — a sweet, creative girl who loves animals, and she'd come with us. We lost our home in a house fire last year and have been rebuilding from the ground up since.
Since 1995 I've mentored kids and teens every summer in horsemanship, and I take in horses people have given up on, rehabilitating them with patience. Mark has been my right hand around the horses for a couple of years — feeding, handling, helping with groundwork.
I'm a Direct Support Professional — I work with people with developmental disabilities, administer medications, and I'm CPR certified. Earlier in life I owned and operated a Christian childcare and learning center serving mostly underprivileged youth. Mark spent years in home health care too — wound care, feeding tubes, medications. He also does electrical work, trained under his father, a licensed journeyman electrician — and he's a musician.
We're self-supporting with our own income, and we have a camper we can live in, so we wouldn't need housing right away. We have a small dog and our cats — they're family.
I also built a free offline survival + Scripture app: ready-and-rooted.pages.dev — the Bible in 1,300 languages, the main language of every nation covered, with approximately 20 new translations added every week in languages that never had one. 59 illustrated survival & first-aid chapters, live weather alerts, offline maps, kids' Bible stories. No ads, no accounts, free forever, works with zero signal.
We're not looking to be served — we're looking to serve, and to raise our daughter among believers. If your community is near the coast and the horses, we'd love to talk.
God bless you all,
Dawn
