October 13, 2021 - As of this past Monday, we have hired our last staff member to help us operate our stores. (Thanks for all your prayers about this) God has given us an amazing team. We have a gal who this is her first job, we have a retired person who wanted to get out and do something. Our latest hire (working with us part-time) has got degrees in African cultural studies and Arabic languages. He is at our Ann Arbor location where we have multiethnic shoppers coming in daily. (Can’t wait to see how God is going to use this hire!)
Each time we have needed a hire we spent much time in prayer asking God to bring us what we needed at that moment. And He has! Maybe not as fast as we had hoped but in His timing nonetheless.
This past week in our Jackson store a lady came in who was telling our team about her sister whom she had not heard from and was worried about. The lady was from the senior low-income housing apartments in our building. As she was sharing her concern tears began to appear on her face and our team asked if she wanted prayer and then - right there in the middle of the store - stopped and prayed for the shopper.
We are more than a store, we are a ministry business that is committed to helping folks be they the poor, persecuted, disenfranchised, disable or unemployed when and where we can. For many it is financial but for others, it is a listening ear, a hug, and especially prayers.
When you support us you are helping us create this movement that is touching lives here and around the world.
This week pray for…
… the training of our new staff members
… the arrival of products coming internationally - Bulgaria, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, and places around the US
… the plans and funding for the Virtual Christmas Gift Box program we are sponsoring.
… Funding for the new livelihood Groups we have talked about and our own support too!
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