This has been a very busy weekend. It started on Friday night with the first part of the Fresh Grounded Faith Women's Conference at Crosspoint Church in Chino. What an amazing group of speakers . . . Jennifer Rothschild, Joni Erickson Tada, and Crystal Paine. Plus wonderful worship music led by Harold & Elena Guerra. We definitely came away feeling very encouraged and grounded in bible wisdom and God's love.
The conference continued Saturday morning.
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| Fresh Grounded Faith Women's Conference Front: Joy, Kathryn Back: Debbie, Robin, Tina, Carol N, Kathy |
After the conference ended, we had a delicious lunch along with some great conversation at Black Bear Diner . . .
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| Front: Seema, Tina, Joy Back: Carol N, Robin, Debbie, Kathy |
Next stop, Noble-Torian Manor to fill our shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child.
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| So many wonderful items for our shoeboxes - School supplies, hygiene items, tools, flashlights and other useful items, and items just for fun |
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| We prayed over all the items before putting them into the boxes. We also prayed for the boys who would receive our boxes. |
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| The assembly line begins. |
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| Our finished boxes! |
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| One more prayer over each of the completed boxes. |
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| Debbie has this wonderful book with stories about Operation Christmas Child and how children around the world have come to know Jesus because of a simple shoebox gift. |
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| Queen Debbie reading stories to us. |
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| Front: Leslie Middle: Tina, Robin, Carol N Back: Debbie, Seema, Heather, Kathy, Joy |
Our second Outreach Project for 2021 was the House of Ruth which provides shelter and assistance to women and children dealing with homelessness, domestic violence, mental illness, substance abuse and recent incarcerations. We learned that they are always in need of basic necessities and hygiene items, along with gift cards in small denominations to stores like Wal-Mart and Target. We collected money during the year and purchased a nice stack of gift cards, and some of our ladies donated hygiene items, and the day after we filled shoeboxes, our donations were dropped off at House of Ruth.
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| House of Ruth in Pomona |
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| Plaque on the wall inside the reception area |
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| Carol N & Debbie about to drop off our contributions |
Some of our FRIENDS couldn't join us for the assembly of our shoeboxes, but everyone contributed items and we are so appreciative to all our ladies for making this Outreach Project so successful each year. Hopefully these boxes will change the lives of some young boys who live in a country far far away, and also open their hearts to accepting Jesus into their lives. We are also thankful for the donations given for House of Ruth.
