Member Spotlight · Amanda Powell
Amanda Powell | Laminar Courier & Logistics: A Business Knit Together By God
Amanda Powell set out with the intent to help support her family and her husband Jason, who drives for a living. Along the way, watching what his work involved sparked an idea of her own. Living near the airport, she saw a need that could be filled transporting long or oversized items. Freight that is too big for a car, but not always worth the cost of renting a full box truck. Somewhere between a pickup truck and a box truck, there was nothing. That gap spurred Amanda to start Laminar Courier and Logistics.
For Amanda, the idea started as a way to support her husband and help provide financially. But as the idea took shape, she felt something more specific pulling at her. She wanted the Lord to be at the center of it, not an afterthought bolted on once the business was running.
What followed felt like more than coincidence. Amanda met a woman at a women's conference, and a season later, on a whim, ran a Google search she can't even remember the details of now, and Needle's Eye Ministries came up.
The very next day, her church worshiped alongside Lee's congregation, and in that service Lee was introduced as the new director of Needle's Eye. Just days after that, the woman Amanda had met at the conference sent her a care package, wrapped in Needle's Eye packaging. Amanda describes it simply: God was knitting this together, and every sign pointed her here to Needle’s Eye.
That sense of calling didn't stop at "start a business and involve God." Amanda wants Laminar to have a purpose bigger than logistics, something that filled a gap no one else was filling. She kept coming back to one group: foster kids aging out of the system. Virginia is ranked one of the worst states for the support and connections available to kids who leave foster care, with 18-20% leaving the system at 18 with no legal guardian or permanent family connection. Amanda wants Laminar to give directly to that need, committing a portion of the business's proceeds, off the top, to support kids who may have grown up believing no one cares.
Amanda's heart for Laminar Courier and Logistics isn't just about filling trucks or closing a gap in the freight market. It's about a business built to glorify God, provide for her family, and reach kids the rest of the world has too often overlooked. Amanda is in the process of launching Laminar, and we are excited to see how the Lord knits her calling and this business together. Cheering you on, Amanda!
