October 19, 2017 – Over the past few months I had been praying to God to guide us with the store and its location. We like where we were but the store space was too small and it was hard to move around in the shop. I did not want to move too far from where we were as people were starting to know us. I prayed one day – “Lord if we are suppose to move make it clear to us!”
Within less than a week of that prayer a store front just 3 doors up the street from us opened up. It was a meat shop that vacated the building. It is much larger than the space we had been in. We called and the rent was not much more than we had been paying but it was twice as large and even had storage space in the back.
When I saw the “for rent sign” – my heart jumped and I knew this was the sign (literally) from God that we were to move forward on this idea.
So, we signed a new lease (the old one was up and were now, just month to month) and with very little to do inside we took a day and marched everything up the street one shelf at a time.
More people have been coming in and are loving the new layout and the roomier feel we have – people now feel they can look around and even hang out a bit in the store. We are also adding more stock and expanding the items that we sell.
Praise God for His leading and His answer to my prayer.
Pray that God would continue to bless the livelihood groups we have and our online stores both in the EU and in America.
This week also be praying for the Safe Home as remodeling is starting and work on bringing it up to code has begun in earnest.
Bonus Material
The Website in Europe is frombulgariawithlove.com
And
The Website in America is marketplacemanna.biz
Great places to shop to get Holiday gifts knowing what you by is helping someone in need.