About Me


My name is Carrie Norton and I have just been set free from a full time job! I have 4 children, 4 grandchildren (another on the way) and a call from the Lord to train and teach the body of Christ how to connect their worship to their work and to walk as Kings in the Marketplace, carrying the gospel of Christ to those the Lord puts in their path.

I believe that call involves success in network marketing! My full time job was at Budget Printing, a small print shop in Texas that prints most of the business cards for most of the Curves in the world, as well as many items for the International Mission Board encouraging and instructing for prayer needs of people groups I had never heard of. My freedom date is October 13, 2009!

I was raised in Texas by Christian parents who took me to church from as early as I can remember. They certainly didn’t do everything right, but my brothers and my sister all turned out well. I am the oldest of four, followed by my sister, then two brothers. Our baby brother Bobby died in 2001 at the age of 31 from melanoma, leaving a hole in our hearts, a wife and a daughter who was only four at the time.

After teaching Sunday School and leading the congregational singing at a small country Baptist Church for over 10 years, my husband and our son and I now attend a large inter-denominational church. Our two oldest daughters have married and one lives a couple of hours away while the other just returned from college and got a job teaching High School Algebra nearby, her new house is just a few miles away. The youngest daughter is a newly licensed cosmetologist, her dream since she was a little girl. Our son is a budding musician and working on earning his Eagle Scout rank. He is also active in the drama, puppet and musical performance tams at our church.

Jeff and I married at the age of 17 in 1979, divorced in 1982 and remarried in 1983. So on August 17, 2009 we had been married most of the time for 30 years. I asked Jesus to come in to my heart somewhere between 4th and 8th grade. Even then the enemy tried to derail my walk with the Lord as I had an accident that delayed water baptism for a week or so after it was planned. As a teenager, I rededicated my life to Jesus while I was involved with an active youth group at the church where I met my husband. As a broken wife and mother in the floor of my living room in 1996, I cried out to the Lord to ‘please take this heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh.’ I believe it was at this point that He filled me with His Holy Spirit in a way that I had never known before. He changed me that day and I know that He has a wondrous plan for me – I also know that if He never did another thing for me, I would serve Him faithfully all the days of my life.

You would not have a true picture of me with out some good information on the work I am involved with. The story starts back there in 1996, as I endured a time of discipline and reprimand from the Lord. I did not work outside my home for 4 years. During that difficult time, I learned that I could not live without Jesus. I learned the Word as I never had before, and I learned to hear His voice. I learned that the words I let come out of my mouth impact my life in a way that I had never understood before. As some of the pressures eased in those years, I was able to learn how to use a computer, and then the internet. I loved the process of figuring things out!

I began to write an article I titled WestConnect in our small town newspaper that ran for two years starting in 1998. It was published as plain talking internet and computing information for regular people to easily understand. I also wrote in green crayon an affirmation that I thumb-tacked on the wall above my computer and said out loud every day. “I earn $500 a week, working in and out of my home providing products and services…” I still have that somewhere – need to pull it out so I can quote it correctly. The faith I used to speak those words brought to reality a wonderful job in 2000 where that figure was my salary, plus I earned commission with the job title of Internet Specialist working for an independent Yellow Page publisher who was implementing an aggressive online advertising program.

My first sale was to a lady who worked for her mom and dad in a small print shop. She invited me to Aglow, a worldwide women’s ministry and we became close friends. In Nov. 2002, after she and I both had gone through many changes and challenges, she asked me how I liked my job – I was now selling Yellow Page advertising because the company had been sold and the Internet department terminated. She wanted to know if I might come help at the print shop, her father had passed away, they had an employee who was pregnant and would I consider going to work for her – not right away – but when she needed me? I told her I loved what I was doing and wouldn’t know how to leave, but that we would pray about it, and if the Lord wanted me over there, He would make a way.

He did make a way – and I told my sales manager in February about the conversation that had taken place last November and that I believed that the situation that had arisen was an answer from the Lord. Whenever she calls, I will go, and this situation is the reason why. She didn’t call until June, and when she did, I left the job I loved and went to work for her. I had made almost as much money in the first six months of that year than I ever made in a whole year that I worked at the print shop, but I knew then as I know now, it was  an assignment from the Lord.

Imagine my surprise when 5 weeks after I started – she FIRED me! What had happened was God showed up at Budget Printing and saved the Plant Manager. All the details would take several more paragraphs, so I will kind of skip to the next God-incidence that brought me to where I am now, after a little more history.

The skills the Lord has developed in my life started with the gift of the family he placed me in. I learned unconditional love, service, faith and tithing. I also learned perseverance in trial, work ethic, developing talent and a love of learning. My parents turned me in as a recruit lead at a Tupperware party when I was sixteen and I sold plastic on and off for thirteen years. I overcame lots of objections in my head standing at my kitchen sink as I imagined the places I would some day be. With Tupperware I learned how to stand up and talk to people and that I can sell what I show. I also learned how to recover when I broke items in demonstrating them!

I didn’t know then the concepts of the law of attraction, let alone how those ideas would connect to the scripture. I waited tables, balanced deposits, entered medical data and sold Certificates of Deposit in the aisles of WalMart as a retail banker. I learned how to conduct employee counseling and discipline including terminations and how to talk to and listen to people in all sorts of situations. I even performed singing telegrams!

As a result of the opportunities I have been given, I have learned many valuable skills, but most of all I have gained the confidence of who I am in Christ and the realization of what I am without Him. The Lord’s people are the ones who I love to connect with. I love to make connections in all kinds of ways, especially when there is an opportunity to meet a need and glorify the Lord at the same time. I hope to help people who need hope and help for health situations with different products I have to offer.

In the process of seeing people feel better, look better,and shed pounds and inches, I expect to find a few who will want to join me in business to add an additional source of income to supplement or replace what they are accustomed to. The Lord has made so very clear that He knows where I am and what I am doing and He is guiding me every step of the way.

Things don’t happen the way they have happened for me without God’s intervention and grace. There have been many breakthroughs, blessings and guidance through the things I have described above. I didn’t even finish the story about how it is that after I was fired, six months later I was asked to come back. The Lord clearly spoke to me as I drove back that first day something that was so outrageous I knew it had to be Him.

Now my friend is married to that Production Manager, there is a worship room in the print shop and I am the President of the local Aglow Lighthouse. I left again in 2006, at the Lord’s leading – and later when I needed to get another job, my first interview was back at the original location where the print shop was when I first met my friend. After working there only a few weeks, I was again asked to go back to the print shop, that was three years ago October 10, 2009.

I sometimes got frustrated being employed full time when what I believed I am ultimately called to do is work my businesses full time. I believed that I would one day be able to leave the shop and earn an income that will enable my husband to be confident that my ability to produce income doesn't depend on my employment status. When the time came for me to leave, other opportunities were provided that will enable me not to seek another full time job.

I will substitute teach at the school where my daughter teaches, as well as the high school where my daughters graduated and my son will attend. I have also joined Avon because so many like to buy their products, and I am now a representative for a company providing websites to contractors. My primary company will remain the same, I believe in our flagship product, mangosteen juice, too strongly to leave.

Some day when he is willing to retire, I am planning that my success will contribute to my husband being able to pursue the artistic crafts he is so talented in.

With my recent release I am ready to spread my wings into the fullness of the calling He has placed within my heart. “Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart’s desires” Psalm 37:4 NLT