The Dollar Club

A friend helped me realize today that it had been 3 weeks since i had blogged. Not Good!!!
What an amazing couple of weeks that it has been. Volunteers made over 4200 bracelets in the last 10 days that look amazing. They each have an information tag on them that talk about the Refuge and our desire to help women leave the industry. Around 220 volunteers participated with mostly women but a few guys involved. The best was being at LCA and seeing some of the state champion football players intensely making bracelets with candy at stake for the winners. All ages participated and multiple churches contributed. It is awesome watching the body of Christ work in unity and come together for something bigger than one person or church can contain.

Our offices were completed yesterday on Waller Ave by a group of volunteers as well. The deadline was 4:00 pm because the board of directors was meeting in there to see the offices for the first time. I was pulling out the sweeper from the offices when the first board member arrived. The last picture was hung after 3 board members had arrived. It was done at exactly the time it was needed. Praise God!!! Thank you to those who stripped walll paper, painted, decorated, hauled furniture and more.

Today I had the opportunity of watching one of the girls get selected for the dollar club at Southland. She was presented with a brand new 2004 Grand Am. Watching her excitement was priceless. She will be attending college in January and finding positive employment. God is at work. I will try to slow down and do a better job of recording it. We are still believing the staff will be in place in February and the doors of the house will open March 1 2010.