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Laura Rose Brown-Thomas

Press Services International

I am a Young Salvationist who lives in Upper Hutt, Wellington. I am passionate about enhancing the life experiences of others and do this in my paid employment as a Support worker for those with Intellectual Disabilities  and as a volunteer leader for GirlGuiding New Zealand. I love to create, write and travel the world and have a passion for submerging myself in the cultures of each place I travel. I left my heart in Africa a month before Covid sent the world into lockdown and I cannot wait to be able to return and serve in a continent that stole so much of my heart. 

  • Learning resilience

    “Resilience looks like a flower growing through an ambulance engine to emerge the other side beautiful and strong.”

  • I am enough and so are you!

    As anxiety fills my body, As the darkness hides the light, As the joy is stomped out, I remind myself, Even in the darkness, Even when the world is ugly, Even when I feel worthless, I am enough.

  • Faith beyond the worry

    “Then, turning to his disciples, Jesus said, “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food to eat or enough clothes to wear. For life is more than food, and your body more than clothing.

  • Faith lessons from friends

    As I’ve navigated life and faith over the past 15 years, more often than not the lessons I’ve learnt of faith and of God’s love is through those around me.

  • Grief we meet again.

    Two years ago, when I walked into The Pet Centre, I was grief stricken and struggling to process the emotions of life after returning home from an amazing season in South Africa and the struggles that came alongside life living in a Covid stricken world.

  • Home is where the heart is, the art of Love.

    If you read my latest article 'Overwhelm', you will know that for me I’ve been sitting in a space of overwhelm over the last little while.

  • A love for creating

    I’m one who likes to make an effort, I like to be a little over the top and I am all for meaningful and creative measures.

  • “Overwhelm”

    The season I find myself in as I write this article in the eleventh hour is a season of overwhelm. It’s not one I would normally admit to, but as I sit in this space it’s the only word I can use to adequately describe how I’m feeling without using a hundred feeling descriptions.

  • Creativity fuels my love language.

    One of my greatest love languages is gifts, and one of my favourite things and something I would claim I am good at is envisioning and pulling together a unique and meaningful gift for people in my life.

  • “All encompassing and loving”

    The greatest hug to wrap and encompass us in our life on earth truly is the love of God, no matter whether we are near or far, sinning or praising...