Rhonda Spellman

Our journey with The Children's Hospital started around March 2009. Since then, God has placed some incredible people into our lives. That is one of the things I LOVE about what we are doing! I get so excited to meet new people and hear their stories and see how we can all help each other out.

One of these amazing ladies is named Rhonda Spellman. Rhonda called me one day wanting more information about A.R.K. Angels. An hour later, we were talking about our families, our faith, our goals and hopes for the future. Turns out that Rhonda is an author of 2 children's books, Fire & Ice and When I Was A Little Boy, by Jesus. Rhonda is a HUGE advocate for Autism. Her son was diagnosed with Autism and a very young age. Through many years of research and through Rhonda's knowledge of writing, she was able to bring her son out of the state of autism that he was in! He now has written 5 books himself and is working on a movie script!

Rhonda has made it her life journey to share with everyone her knowledge and experiences with Autism. She has created an amazing workshop for all children. In this workshop, she teaches children of all ages how to write their own books. Each kids gets to write a 15 page book and then she "publishes" it for them. They all then get a copy of one of her books and a certificate. It's amazing! For more information about her workshops please visit her website at www.autismwithrhonda.com. We are hoping to do a workshop with Rhonda with The Medical Day Treatment Center at The Children's Hospital soon. We just need to find sponsors to help with the funding of this project.

Rhonda just recently wrote an article about A.R.K. Angels that will appear in a national magazine for autism. We will post this on our site once the issue is released, should be the November issue. This article is so wonderfully written! We feel so very blessed to have somebody like Rhonda believe in what we are doing and wanting to join forces to create something amazing for the kids! We look forward to what the future has in store with us and Rhonda, not just professionally but personally!

When you start to lose hope in what our world has become, certain people come into your life restoring your faith in human kind. There are still amazing people out there in our world! Imagine what we could do for all of these precious children who are suffering from some sort of disease. illness or disorder if we were all to join together? It gives me the chills thinking of the possibilities!