I am always humbled when a woman calls us for help and we talk through her immediate needs but then...she whispers her phone number or address.  

I cannot help but wonder who or what she is hiding from or afraid of.  I am so thankful that God allows us to give hope and encouragement in a time of need like these.  I cannot even imagine going through what some of the women we speak to are enduring.  I am also constantly encouraged by their strength and endurance.

Please keep the women (and their children) that are struggling with abuse, homelessness and desperation in your prayers today.  Please pray that we can give them the glimmer of hope, strengthen their faith, and the Love of Christ that they need to press forward and change their situation.

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Romans 5:2-5