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Staff Spotlight: Leisa Jobe
Posted by Janet Mendenhall on July 22, 2010 at 1:04 pm
After fifteen years helping people’s heads look beautiful, Leisa Jobe is now looking to help people’s hearts become beautiful. Leaving a career in cosmetology, Leisa earned her bachelor’s degree in social work because she “simply wanted to help people.”
Leisa came to Christian Homes & Family Services after several years of experience with Child Protective Services in Texas. Christian Homes was actually the first place she applied after college, but there were no openings. Thankfully for all of us, nine years later she applied again, and now she is the Director of Social Services working in the east Texas office.
As the only caseworker in Tyler, Leisa experiences each of the joys at Christian Homes. She is involved with the birth mothers in east Texas, guiding and counseling them through their decision- making process and sharing in their search for hope and peace. She works with the adoptive parents as they prepare and await their child. And then she gets to supervise that placement and watch that family grow. She prepares and certifies foster parents to welcome a child into their home both for temporary transitional foster care and the foster-to-adopt program.
Leisa enjoys every aspect of her job, but readily admits, “The foster-to-adopt program is where my heart lies. I have been in at-risk homes and have seen what a hard life so many of these little ones have had,” she said. “It makes me happy to watch them get to know what a stable Christian family looks like and to get to experience being part of one.” Visits to the foster-to-adopt homes are Leisa’s happiest days. “I love that!” she says with a smile. “It is fun to be in these loving Christian homes and watch their children just blossom.”
When Leisa is not happily visiting her adoptive and foster families, she has just enough time for her favorite hobby — visiting her two grandsons and their families. That really makes her happy.
Leisa’s haircuts could probably still turn heads, but her devotion to families is turning hearts.
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We could not have asked for a better experience when our Halle was placed with us. You are sweet as sugar and the Lord shines through you. I was so pleased to see this post dedicated to YOU! Thank you again for doing God’s work.
Thanks for all you have done for us, Leisa! Great to have you in the “spotlight”!
- The Piggs
