Clothes Closet and Car Care

I am getting so much rest...I am loving it! I also have some things going on that I'm excited to share with you. First of all, I will be back to full time blogging (full time for me might mean once a week, or twice or more, not sure yet!) at the first of August! I've decided that it is something that's good for me, to have a place to report on fashion and a place to give an update on the stuff God is doing in my life. I am a big journal-er....(is that a word?) but it's also fun to have a place on my computer to remind me of things, too. I still haven't figured out how to post pics yet but that is going to be something I'm going to find out about. Even if I have to send them to my friend Lisa B. at Simply His to do it for me.....she said she would. (Love her!)

I'm also having a new blog designed! I'm so excited and can't wait for you to see it....actually, I can't wait to see it either! I stumbled across this fabulous blogsite one night and checked out who did it and found this really hip, cute chick that looks like she can do something amazing with mine. So she's working on it now! I think it will inspire me to write more stuff, too!

Okay, now for something really neat. I think God is calling us to a new church...oh dear, if anyone from my church reads this I'm really in trouble. But there are a few reasons this might be happening and we're just watching what God does as He's directing us. So last week, He directed us to a church near our home...actually, it's where my son goes to school, which is quite convenient also! As I was looking for the service times on their website, I saw a notice for "Clothes Closet and Car Care". What? A Clothes Closet? Yippee....I was so excited! I have always wanted to have a clothing ministry at my church but wasn't able to due to some logistics. So when I saw this I got super excited. Turns out today was the day for it. Here's what is was.....first of all, it was started by the Single Parents Sunday School Class. The theme of their class is James 1:27 "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." Therefore, they do just this. Every 6 weeks, this sunday school class provides free oil changes and car checkups to single moms and widows of all ages. The men from the class and other volunteer mechanics check cars and maintain them in the church parking lot while the women and children are directed (while their cars are being worked on, free of charge) to a room inside the church where they can shop for clothes for themselves and their kids....again, all free of charge. It was a blessing to behold. I was like a kid in a candy store helping these women choose clothes for themselves....yes, a personal shopper at work....oh my! I searched the racks for the correct sizes, picked out clothes, put outfits together and was happy, happy, happy! We had women praising the Lord for the things they found! Behind me, I heard Scott, the class leader, writing up the information for a new client (Anitra) and presenting the gospel to her. Oh my Oh my, yes indeed he was....it was music to my ears....and to hers. I'll tell you why in a minute.
I was able to sit on the floor with an 82 year old woman (she was not on the floor!) and show her the slacks I'd found for her, 3 pair to be exact, and hear about her life. She'd been coming to that church for 55 years...and here were these guys taking care of her car! What a ministry. Three hours later, after all the clothes were put back in boxes and taken back to storage (they do this every single time they provide this service because there is no permanent room for the things) I was headed to my car and passed the new client on her way out. I waved at her and her 3 children and she stopped the car, rolled down the window and said, "I'll see you next week...I'm going to come back to this church. You see, I came for an oil change, but I got so much more." So did I, Anitra, So did I.