12/22/2022
I'm so grateful for the opportunity to experience God's love through the ministry of OKCity Center . Last week our team, along with local volunteers, helped with organizing, wrapping, packaging and managing the delivery of the thousands of gifts for over 600 neighborhood families. The Center also hosted a HUGE Christmas party for around 500 guests. Children got to see Santa Claus and families were treated to a mouthwatering beef brisket dinner.
Due to the generosity of a local utility company, the first 150 children to see Santa were able to get a free bicycle!!
I personally worked all week with the one lone woman in (where else?π) the kitchen to help feed our team, the staff and also the neighborhood children and a few "regulars" from the streets. We also prepared a side dish and desserts for the Christmas party. She was such a cheerful and lovely person. She was amazing not only in the kitchen, but she also made the party decorations and oversaw their hanging. All of this and she still made it home at the end of very long days to spend time with her husband and three children and her newly moved mother from California. Christy is truly inspiring!
I am humbled by the warm welcome we received from the Center staff. From the time we arrived until our last goodbyes, we experienced love and gratitude.
I am thankful for our small, but determined team. We were told that we helped accomplish all the work in record time.
I also want to give a heartfelt thank you to all of you who helped make this trip possible through your generous giving and support of my soup sales. It is because of and through your kindness that work like this can happen.
Please continue to watch for more soup sales as I'm not finished with mission work yet!
Phil 1:3 I thank my God every time I remember you. 4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy. β€οΈ
I also pray that you have a blessed holiday season!!
To God be the Glory!!