Living Love Collective is an outpouring of a dream and vision the Lord had rooted in our Founder Laci's heart and soul for many years. She realized that discovering her gifts and talents leads to loving, serving, and creatively pursuing our purpose in life. Through this newly found freedom in Christ, the Lord made it clear that He is in control of everything and is working for our good and His glory (Romans 8:28).

In 2011, the Lord grew Laci through the experience of caring for her first child. Because of her Grace story, learning about Christ through a homeschooling family, she knew she would homeschool eventually. She began seeking knowledge, wisdom, and understanding to teach her child about Jesus and the beauty of our world. During this time, the Lord was sharpening her for her purpose. Laci learned many new talents and skills that led her to pursue ministry and the creative arts. And after being a part of God's church, she felt something special and far more significant than herself. She began to notice that we are all broken and that being in a Christ-Centered community was a safe place for her. 

She went through many devastating trials and tribulations throughout her life, leading to one of the most defining moments of her walk with the Lord. As He was healing her from her past trauma and leading her to a new beginning. Her life turned upside down after she gave birth to her second child, Oliver, when he was born with congenital heart disease. After three intense months, God called Oliver home. This trial in her life was devastating but fortunate, terrifying but beautiful, crushing yet freeing. The Lord was reconstructing her soul as miracles and assurances from Him were in every moment. Through this life-altering experience, the Lord gave her the courage to act upon a new ministry vision for the next seven years. 

This ministry's vision was to live out the rest of her life using her gifts and talents to be the hands and feet of Jesus. Instead of living a life filled with self-gratification, anxiety, and an endless search for empty happiness, she would seek to live a life filled with purpose and meaning. Many failures and triumphs came along the way, but the Lord never failed her. She began resting in this future promise from the Lord and waiting for His provision.

Her children began to blossom at home as she quietly homeschooled them using the Charlotte Mason method. After discovering the hidden treasure of living education, rooted in eternal significance, she knew she had to share it with others. The Lord began to unfold the vision he had placed in her heart many years ago, and the core of it all was a life-giving christ-centered community. 

After seven years of praying and envisioning, our Founder Laci Sullivan witnessed the unfolding of Living Love Collective in the summer of 2019. Through the astounding provision of the Lord, Living Love Collective organically formed into a beautiful living education ministry full of life and love! 

After two years of running the Living Love Collective ministry, Laci officially started phase one of Oliver's Market in 2022. Oliver's Market was named in her Son's memory to signify the Lord's healing power over her life and to inspire others to embrace hope in all circumstances. 

Through this declaration, she gives the Lord all the praise and glory for what He has done to radically transform her heart and mind throughout her entire life! And witnessing families pour out their hearts to love and serve one another is heartwarming and the conduit for Living Love Collective's success. We are exceedingly grateful for what the Lord has done, is doing, and will do - in and through this community as we grow. 

As our journey connects, we hope this community will serve you in your homeschooling journey and will be a place for growth as a parent, a teacher, and an ambassador for Christ. We pray that you discover your God-given gifts and talents to spread the Gospel and that we thrive together as we strive to be more like Christ.