Becoming Beautiful

"And I want women to get in there with the men in humility before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing the latest fashions but doing something beautiful for God and becoming beautiful doing it" 1 Tim 2:9-10





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Keep Believing, Keep Praying It is done! Yes, I actually began sponsoring a Compassion Child this week! It was such a difficult thing to pick one girl out of over 2,000 kids in need. However, after praying about it, I committed to sponsor a little girl from Ghana, Africa. Felicia is 8 years old and has been waiting for a sponsor for over 200 days. They say I will get my Compassion Packet within the next 15 days, and I early check the mail hoping it miraculously showed up already. I am so excited to get to know her, and also get to encourage her! It brings me great joy to be able to provide some hope for Felicia. However I am still so overwhelmed by the amount of children all over the world that are in great need. There are children right here in Detroit who, similarly to Felicia, are in great need. 67% of Detroit Kids live in high poverty areas. Yes, you read that correctly… OVER HALF of the kids in Detroit live in or near poverty. There are definitely great needs in countries like Ghana, I’m not trying to down play that. All I’m saying, is there is great need right here in America, that so often gets overlooked or downplayed. There is such need in this City that I love, and I have great dreams to meet the needs of the people. Not only do they need proper shelter, clothing, and food- they need to know Jesus!  Sometimes big dreams like getting more people/churches to sponsor Real Church/Hope Works so we can get the things we need to reach more people and more Bibles to pass out. I also dream of starting a dream center here in Detroit that can provide things like financial classes, assistance in finding jobs, cooking classes, counseling, and medical attention. It will certainly take HUGE miracles to make see these things happen, but Jesus is WAY BIGGER! And He wants me to dream big, pray bigger, and never give up. I absolutely believe I will get to witness and be apart of some super amazing things happening here in Detroit in the years to come. Until these big things happen, I will remain faithful in the not-as-big things (there is still so much we can do now!) and hopeful for what’s next. I love this city so much, and God loves it even more! What big dreams do you have? Don’t ever give up! Keep praying and believing!

Keep Believing, Keep Praying

It is done! Yes, I actually began sponsoring a Compassion Child this week! It was such a difficult thing to pick one girl out of over 2,000 kids in need. However, after praying about it, I committed to sponsor a little girl from Ghana, Africa. Felicia is 8 years old and has been waiting for a sponsor for over 200 days. They say I will get my Compassion Packet within the next 15 days, and I early check the mail hoping it miraculously showed up already. I am so excited to get to know her, and also get to encourage her!

It brings me great joy to be able to provide some hope for Felicia. However I am still so overwhelmed by the amount of children all over the world that are in great need.

There are children right here in Detroit who, similarly to Felicia, are in great need. 67% of Detroit Kids live in high poverty areas. Yes, you read that correctly… OVER HALF of the kids in Detroit live in or near poverty. There are definitely great needs in countries like Ghana, I’m not trying to down play that. All I’m saying, is there is great need right here in America, that so often gets overlooked or downplayed.

There is such need in this City that I love, and I have great dreams to meet the needs of the people. Not only do they need proper shelter, clothing, and food- they need to know Jesus!  Sometimes big dreams like getting more people/churches to sponsor Real Church/Hope Works so we can get the things we need to reach more people and more Bibles to pass out. I also dream of starting a dream center here in Detroit that can provide things like financial classes, assistance in finding jobs, cooking classes, counseling, and medical attention.

It will certainly take HUGE miracles to make see these things happen, but Jesus is WAY BIGGER! And He wants me to dream big, pray bigger, and never give up. I absolutely believe I will get to witness and be apart of some super amazing things happening here in Detroit in the years to come. Until these big things happen, I will remain faithful in the not-as-big things (there is still so much we can do now!) and hopeful for what’s next. I love this city so much, and God loves it even more!

What big dreams do you have? Don’t ever give up! Keep praying and believing!

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