Everything is for a Reason

August 29, 2016
This was another wonderful week! Although we are working in the house everyday, I am not posting an entry each day. We have now been working for 2 weeks, and although the rooms are crowded, each area has a label and a place designated to be used! We are so thankful and we realize that every person is coming here for a reason that is so much more important than we are!

Wrought iron furniture waiting to be picked up for a garage sale for Uganda mission trip from
Long Hollow Baptist Church 

Melanie went through all clothes...choosing ones that could be worn in Uganda.
  Long skirts and dresses only with no low necklines 

Michelle started gathering clothes, shoes and purses for women in Uganda. She will have a wrought iron, dishes, Christmas and Halloween sale soon to help raise $30,000 for an orphanage there.

Garage sale items to support a mission trip to Ethiopia 

Jeff, who represents Room in the Inn in Nashville came and picked up a truck and car of men's clothing!





Marti and Liz shoes said they would buy 300 pairs of shoes and we would donate the money. They ended up taking 400 pairs and we sent 600 pairs. It was not easy checking each pair and boxing them up, but we were so thankful that it worked and we were able to donate $2,000.

John, Cheron, Beth, Micki and her nephew loading the truck

We boxed and bagged 2000+ purses. 1/2 of them were going with Meredith with "Against the Grain" for women out of prison. The rest were being picked by by Beth and being used for a garage sale for purses, shoes, and hats to fund "Elevate Madison Ministries.

Meredith and her husband with Micki loading purses for her ministry

Janet with many bags of purses waiting for the truck 

We put a thousand or so bags in the foyer before they were bagged