Need Women's Clothing For A Job Interview!

A long time client is actively looking for a second job (so proud of her!!!) and needs new clothes to make a good first impression!

Sizes:  Pants (22) / Shirts or Blouses (24 or 3X)

aIf you or someone you knows might be able to help, please let us know!

You can help in two ways:

1) Donate by clicking here for a gift card. (Please put "interview" in the comment section of the donation page.)

2) Donate new or lightly used clothing by contacting us.

Thank you and have a blessed day!

Savvy shopping provides meals for $1.17 each!!!

Emergency food bags are a big part of our ministry, thanks to your donations we were recently able to purchase 6 food supplies for families in crisis, many with children. 






Each supply provides about 30 meals each for $211.00...That is $1.17 per meal!!





If you'd like to join our food bag ministry please send us a message, we have many opportunities to help both financially plus several volunteer opportunities. Please share this with your small group and friends we would love to serve those in need with you!

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Year End Giving

Don't forget to make an end of year donation! We would appreciate any end of year donations to allow us to begin 2015 serving those in need like never before! You can make an end of year donation quick and easy at www.ruthsheart.org/donations or consider becoming a new monthly donor for 2015!

Thank you so much for following our ministry and we are looking forward to sharing the stories of those in need in our community and the success that we can only provide through your generous donations! Happy New Year and God bless!

What a tremendous idea!!!

If you are a seamstress and would like to serve in a VERY SPECIAL WAY, take a look at these pics from an organization in Detroit (http://www.empowermentplan.org) and let us know if this is something we can do in Memphis! These coats would be such a blessing to those in need this winter. PLEASE SHARE with your friends in case their is a seamstress out there that would like to get involved!

We would also love to partner with other organizations in Memphis to make this happen! 

You can also Contact Us for more information and opportunities to serve.

Hope to hear from you!

Going "home"

Today, thanks to your support, we were able to assist 2 men looking to make a change in their lives by purchasing bus tickets for them to go "home".  One man is going to Nashville to enter a Rehab program and he has family support there that he does not have here in Memphis.  The other man is going to Gainesville FL where he has a friend that is willing to help him get back on his feet by giving him a place to live until he finds work and can get his own place.

In addition to calling and confirming that these men are welcome where they are going, I always ask "is this a better situation for you than where you are now" and today both of these men sounded like a ton of weight had been lifted off of them as they both replied "oh yes"!!  It always makes me smile when we can get someone to a place that they feel is "home".  Whether that is Memphis or somewhere across the country where they have support and love, we are blessed to be able to help people go "home".

Join our ministry with your prayers, your time or become a monthly supporter of our ministry to help people through various programs such as the program that allowed us to purchase bus tickets for these two men.

Taking the next step...a follow up letter from our client and friend

Below is a response from the lady from our last post, thanks to our supporters and donors, we have been able to help.  When people ask "why we do what we do" this is EXACTLY why...very humbled and blessed today.

i had to find this today and say thank you so much to God and you and the donor this past week has been hard i was thinking i did right in leaving my abuser but in all reality it became more of a struggle than i thought when you loose everything clothes food car phone basic needs in life to survive and to start over from scratch i didnt know if i had the strength everyday i cry my self to sleep saying ok god all i have is you i have tired different places for help but being a single woman unless you have children its hard and starting from nothing and waking up wondering if you have clothes to go outside in the cold or if i will eat today i just try to push forward and say God please help me make it through one more day well when i recieved your flyer i hestitated to call scared of hearing the word no again but something was tugging at my heart to call and when you answered the phone there was a kindness in your voice that calmed my spirit and you said yes to helping with wrk pants i thought to myself wow thank you lord then when i met you my heart melted you didnt even know me bbut you showed me the love of god so when the shelter said its time to go out and move on i was scared going out in to the world with nothing or noone then i rembered your flyer and i called and once again a miracle i cried for an hour last night after your call because i know i still dont have much but now i have you as a friend on the other side of that phone line when i call and also i now know that my daddy in heaven has been hearing my crys i am so thankful for you and ruths heart i will continue to fight the good fight of faith and be still because God will provide one way or the other..............god bless ruths heart

Taking the next step....

A while back we posted about a single lady that had worked her way out of a shelter for abused women, she needed pants for work and a gracious donor gave her several pairs of brand new pants. She is still working the same job at IHOP and is trying to get into her own apartment. She has an apt. picked out where she can afford the rent, she just can't afford the deposit to actually move in. We have been praying that we could find an organization to help her but the only help we can find is for people being evicted, not moving in. If you would like to help this woman get into this apartment, we are trying to raise $200 in the next 2 days. We would love for her to be able to move in this weekend. Ruth's Heart will match 100% of any donations made with the comment "deposit" on the donation. If you can help, please make a donation here www.ruthsheart.org/donations and put "deposit" in the comment. Thank you for your continued support of our ministry and those in need. God bless!!

UPDATE:
Within 5 minutes we had a donor to match us on the rent needed for this sweet lady!  Praising the Lord for all of those willing to step out and be Jesus to someone they don't even know.  I called and this sweet woman could not stop crying tears of joy.  SO VERY Blessed to be a Blessing!

Coincidence??? NO WAY!!!

Last night we met a friend for dinner at a new restaurant in Olive Branch, MS.  A couple things happened and I was so grateful to God for putting us there!  (Oh, and the food was fabulous too!)

Our friend, Sherri had been there before so she wanted to introduce us to the owner.  She was a sweet woman and came and talked to us for a while.  In conversation she told us that God had laid on her heart that very morning that He wanted her to provide 10 families with Thanksgiving meals........

I couldn't believe my ears!  

I had a call just a few hours earlier from a woman that we worked with in August and at that time she was homeless.  She called to let us know that she had been blessed with a home and was just wondering if we knew of anywhere she and her family could get a Thanksgiving meal.  I did not know of anywhere but told her I would let her know if something came up.  WOW!!!

THEN, we continued talking about New Orleans, where she is from and we are planning a second Ruth's Heart location, and it turns out she worked with the homeless community in New Orleans for 9 years!  Amazing!  (Yes, we have a lunch date Monday afternoon!)

THEN, I walked out to our car to get her a brochure and there was a man outside and asked me if we had jumper cables, that his car was just down the street.  I told him I wasn't sure but I would go in and get my husband to come talk to him.  So as my husband was helping this man and his daughter jump their battery, he didn't have enough light and left them to come back for a flashlight.  When he returned, the daughter said she had noticed the Ruth's Heart magnet on our car and wanted to know just what we do.  So he explained to her and she turned to him and said 

"Can you please help my daddy?" 

This young lady's father needs help with his addiction to alcohol as it is separating him from his family and is tearing her apart.  She described the church that she goes to but said it isn't for her father, she then described the church she hoped her dad would find and what she described was Jacob's Well, our ministry partner and urban church for all 'non-perfect' people, where everyone is welcome and loved regardless of their situation, struggles, past sins or weaknesses.  

She is going to call me and with much prayer and God's guidance we hope to be able to find him the help he needs for himself, his family, and his daughter who obviously loves him so much.

Coincidence:  a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection.

Appointment:  an arrangement to meet someone at a particular time and place.

I think this night was definitely an "appointment" made by God himself and we just didn't know about it until it happened!  

Thank you God for all you do, even when we have no idea what you are up to!!!

Ephesians 2:10
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Special Needs: Diapers, Crib Sheets and Uniforms - can you help?

We have two clients with very immediate needs - if you can help please let us know!

he first is a single mom who had a baby girl on Sept. 30th and is in need of size 1 diapers either Huggies or Pampers (or a gift card). She also needs crib sheets. She has a crib but the baby isn't sleeping in it because she has no sheets.

The second is a single woman who is at the abused women's shelter and just got a job and is in need of uniforms. She is currently wearing and washing the same uniform every day. She needs size 14 black pants and size XL white button down shirts.

If you can help either of these ladies, we would be glad to pick up any donations or deliver gift cards if you'd like to donate towards these needs.

To make a donation for either of these ladies, please go towww.ruthsheart.org/donations and put "new baby" or "uniforms" in the comment with your donation. We will ensure that 100% of your donation goes to these women.

Thank you and be blessed!

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