Visible School graduate came for, finds home, life purpose

Profile feature for The Commercial Appeal

May 28, 2009

The Visible School is in a low-slung building just off Interstate 40 and Canada Road in Lakeland, nestled between a carpet store and a Super 8 motel. Its students work to earn bachelor’s degrees in ministry, specializing in modern music or media production.

This is where Danielle Wilson earned a degree in practical ministry May 16. She says it’s also where she found a home.

Wilson was born 32 years ago this month, in Westboro, Ohio, a town so small that “there’s no post office. It has two stop signs and a cemetery,” she says.

Here’s the story she tells about the years that led up to her move to Memphis: Her parents divorced when she was 10, and went their separate ways; her father went to work five days a week, and her mother simply went away … (read more)