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Lindsay Shores
A Passionate
Missionary,
Coach, and Mom
by Lex Mallege
have had the privilege to attend
Trinity Christian School since
A
I ugust 2022 when my family
transitioned here to America. It
was a huge change after being born
and raised in Botswana, Africa. I
never could have imagined I would
have the opportunity to live in
the U.S., much less be taught and
influenced by so many amazing
people at Trinity and in the
Lubbock community.
Life in Botswana was very
different, with many hard
challenges. My birth mother,
Ntebo, was an amazing woman
who raised me well with strong
values, but we didn’t have many
resources. Minimum wage in our
country is about $140 a month,
and jobs are scarce. We moved to a
small town in 2015 to take care of
my two cousins because my mom’s
twin sister needed help because
her legs had stopped working. We
lived in a small room on the back
of a house with no running water
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and no electricity.
My mom ran a
tuck shop that sold
little items to try to
support us. We had Lindsay's TCS 7th grade basketball team
little to survive on,
and we often went
to bed hungry.
Things got a little better for us
when my mom met Shannon
and Lindsay Shores. They
hired her to run a food truck
that helped support the Youth
Center they had founded.
This meant, at age 11, I had
to help raise my cousins—
make dinner, help with their
studies, and see to their
(bucket) baths before bed.
Lex with his birth mother, Ntebo
One week my mom started
getting sick. She didn’t go to on the day she was scheduled for
the hospital because she thought the appointment. She was only
it would go away. The Shores had 43. When I got home from school
grown close to mom and arranged that day and heard the news, my
an ultrasound. But my mom passed world shattered. My father had
away suddenly due to a blood clot