Many Ordinary Heroes came together for this Halloween outreach to the kids at the Family Life Center associated with the Nashville Rescue Mission.  This is always such a wonderful way for the children to escape their reality for a night and dress up as their favorite super hero.  A team of us went down about a week before the event and took pics of the kiddos and found out what they wanted to dress up as.  We then brought in the costumes, thanks to many of you who donated and gave money. Also, a special thanks to my girls at TBCH for coming out to help. The buses from Bethel World Outreach graciously escorted the moms and kids down to the Fall Festival at the church for a night of fun, food, and laughs.

 

After last year’s great success with helping Candice and her children, we kept our eyes open this year to see which mom we were going to help.  

Because of everyone's wonderful support and donations this year we are in the process of helping not one mother, but 3 mothers and 5 children this year. We really felt like we had narrowed it down to these 3 moms as much as funds would allow. We started out helping a girl named Jackie . She really was our next "Candice". She was almost in the identical situation as Candice was last year. She had two young children and  she was newly pregnant when we met her. I went down and met with her at the shelter and got all of her info and then started putting together a plan for her as best I could. She got a pretty good job on her own during this time which happens to be where one of my good friends works who is helping me with this project. She called me one day and told me that she had gone to the doctor because of fainting at work. She ended up having a miscarriage. We kept her kids at our house for her while she spent two days in the hospital.  Her kids were great. Her son is obsessed with Spiderman she says because he dressed up like spiderman at the fall festival. He literally never quits talking about spiderman and "webbing" people. I then picked Jackie up from the hospital and let her come to our house to sleep and then they returned to the shelter the next day. We also had Jackie and her children as well as Ruby, one of the girls from the TBCH, come to my sisters house for Thanksgiving. They seemed to enjoy it very much. We all enjoyed having them with us.

 

About a week ago Jackie got accepted into an income based apt. We were able to let her come to a storage shed and pick out furniture that had been donated by our church. That stuff as well as all of the donations from all of my sisters friends and my own friends and family completely furnished her whole apt. It was so great to see those kids with their own room and their own stuff. They have been totally blessed. They now have a place to call home. She did not have one thing to furnish her apt with. She also got involved in a small car wreck and we took some of the money and fixed her car for her. So everything has come together for her. They are a very sweet,beautiful family and she seems like a very strong girl who knows what she wants in life. She talks of getting her GED and going to college.

 

She has come a long way since we met her that first night at the shelter to find out what the kids wanted to dress up as for halloween. We did not know that night that she was one of the women that God would bless at this time. She is 20 years old and could already write a book about her life if she wanted. But yet, couldn't we all.

 

Again, many thanks to you all for all the many generous donations to furnish an apartment for Jackie and her children.

 

 

To watch a video documenting our 2007 outreach