{"id":39,"date":"2014-10-12T05:14:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T09:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inspiredhope.org\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2022-01-29T22:33:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T03:33:12","slug":"your-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.inspiredhope.org\/?page_id=39","title":{"rendered":"Louie&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-391\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inspiredhope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/louieface.jpg\" alt=\"louieface\" width=\"159\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Louie grew up in a broken home in Florida where he and his brothers were often\u00a0left\u00a0with no food and no hope. \u00a0Life didn&#8217;t seem\u00a0worth living.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling hopeless and afraid, Louie sought love and affirmation from his gang related family. He soon learned that this lifestyle lead to watching his friends go to jail. Louie turned to the world for answers and, without knowing Christ, he experienced rejection and abandonment. He knew that this was not the life he wanted to live. He broke away and moved to Orlando where he met\u00a0his future wife Andrea.<\/p>\n<p>But there was still a void in Louie&#8217;s heart.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until he gave his life to Jesus Christ and began to feel the love of Jesus in his heart that he found fullness and joy. Louie went\u00a0on to marry Andrea and they now\u00a0live in\u00a0Fort Mill, SC with their three children: Ava, Roman, and Hannah.<\/p>\n<p>Louie became\u00a0very successful in the service industry and saw brokenness and the need to be inspired in his everyday dealings with people and families. Louie often\u00a0shared his testimony\u00a0of God&#8217;s change in\u00a0his life and saw\u00a0hope in\u00a0the listeners&#8217; faces.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 God gave Louie\u00a0the vision to create The Show Inspired. \u00a0He\u00a0ran a test pilot for the show and continued to pray for timing and direction.<\/p>\n<p>In June of 2014 Louie sold his business and founded InspiredHope Ministries. InspiredHope&#8217;s purpose is to share the love of Jesus with the world through life changing testimonies of everyday people&#8230;to give hope to the hopeless, to bring truth to your circumstances, and to help you understand that God actually has a plan and purpose for your life. <strong>InspiredHope<\/strong> can help you find that.<\/p>\n<p>To invite Louie to speak at your next event, please click <a title=\"Book Louie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiredhope.org\/?page_id=51\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louie grew up in a broken home in Florida where he and his brothers were often\u00a0left\u00a0with no food and no hope. \u00a0Life didn&#8217;t seem\u00a0worth living. Feeling hopeless and afraid, Louie sought love and affirmation from his gang related family. He soon learned that this lifestyle lead to watching his friends go to jail. Louie turned<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredhope.org\/?page_id=39\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredhope.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredhope.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredhope.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredhope.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredhope.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredhope.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredhope.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/935"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredhope.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredhope.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}