Katy resident providing hope through Project Prayer Box

KATY, TX -- Paige Lewis has done a lot in her young life, but the noblest endeavor she's completed might be the creation of Project Prayer Box, a non-profit initiative to provide encouragement through prayers.

Lewis grew up in Katy, attending Taylor High School in the early 2000s and playing for the Mustangs through her junior year, when they were state finalists in 1999 and 2002. She left Taylor in 2002 to pursue a musical career after releasing a self-titled contemporary Christian record. Lewis then attended UT Austin, enrolling in the school's Texas Creative Program for advertising. When she graduated in December 2009, Lewis returned to music, releasing three more independent albums.

Only days after moving to Los Angeles in July 2013 to further pursue music, her mother Sherry was diagnosed with breast cancer.

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