The history textbooks employ scholars to share key events and people from the past. The newspapers employ journalists to share the news-worthy events and people of today. 

Who determines that someone’s story is worthy of being told?

Nestled in a small-town coffee shop, Ashlyn Jacobs, high school senior, expresses her own desire to find and tell the stories big name news companies tend to neglect: the small stories her heart gravitates toward.

“What better way to show that people matter?” 

The Faithful Pages, Ashlyn’s blog, is the product of a passion for writing built upon a lifetime of storytelling. The page roots itself deep into the faith of its creator; just as Ashlyn roots her life into the Word. 

Jacobs furthers her blog in hopes of being a light to any person willing to listen: a philosophy she testifies to beyond her writing. Even while walking downtown, she patiently guides a group of wandering tourists to the Abraham Lincoln statue sitting on the opposite end of main street. For Ashlyn, her writing is simply another way to serve others for a purpose far greater than any trivial ambitions for subscribers.

Ashlyn brings her audience the priceless message that each person, merely walking about their day, is a living story worth telling. Through her unconditional faith, Ashlyn understands that life is simply too individualistic to grasp and understand through a textbook or the selective breaking news. 

She captures the world around her with a loving, poetic heart capable of using words to reflect the hidden substance behind a person. 

The possibility for someone to find hope in a narrative similar to their own commissions the author to use her talent to testify to the world stories of faith and to make that world a little less lonely.