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The Refuge
Atascosa Pregnancy Care Center
At Cowboy Homecoming!!!

August Rummage Sale

Love For Life Banquet

Long overdue. Busy is not a good enough excuse!

Please forgive me! I have been exceptionally busy, but that is not a good enough excuse for being so overdue on our news letter!

Growing Fast Now

We have settled into our new place. Ladies from FBC Pleasanton and Poteet came to decorate the counseling rooms, and the client bathroom. We have received many great donations and have had baby showers and a stuff the truck sponsored by various churches, such as Summerset Baptist, New Life Outreach, and Cowboy Fellowship.

We are starting to grow pretty fast now. We have 41 clients, not counting the parenting classes. We are on our 3rd parenting course now with an attendance rate of between 6 and 12.
Each client that enters The Refuge is presented the gospel. We have had 3
young ladies accept the Lord as their savior and others that have left interested in the gospel of Jesus. There have been some who said “ I never heard that before.” when I presented the gospel. That is really hard to believe in a Christian nation.

It is hard to know how many babies we may have saved, but I don’t have personal knowledge of any abortions that have occurred among the girls who have visited us; although there is one that is of concern. We need your constant prayers as do the women who are our clients.

Location
For those of you who don’t already know, we are located in Poteet at 815 School Drive.

Other News

We purchased a lot on Adams Street in Pleasanton, Texas a few months ago. It is an excellent location, less than a block from Pleasanton High school. We hope to
build within the next year.
We barely have enough volunteers to get by at present; so we will definitely need more before we can open a new center. If you are interested, please contact me, Collene Myers at:

The Refuge
Atascosa Pregnancy Care Center,
Po Box 509,
Pleasanton, TX, 78064

Or call 830-742-3447 or 830-569-5883 for more information.

Praise the Lord! What an amazing God we have! He has provided in ways I never expected!
Thank you Lord for the great opportunities you are providing us each day!

Prayer Points

• Praise the Lord for all the wonderful provisions, and for the ways that he is working in our lives and the lives of our clients.
  
  
• Praise God for providing me with a 2002 Ford Explorer with working air-conditioning!
  
  
• Pray for wisdom for myself and the other volunteers as we speak to the women and sometimes young men that we encounter.
  
  
• Volunteers!!! Thank you Lord for our wonderful volunteers, but please give us more. We still need more!

Old News!

Cowboy Homecoming!!!

• The Refuge had bunches of volunteers helping at their booth at the 44th annual Cowboy Homecoming. Among them were Peggy Maxfeldt, Catherine and Abby Favor, Robin Porter, Mary Roberts, Joyce Walding, Kerry Baxley, Collene Myers, Paul and Suzy Hull and their granddaughter. Mary Ann Boyd was very helpful in organizing volunteers.
  This is the second year for The Refuge to have a booth at the event. The Refuge offers much needed practical assistance through their free programs.

Volunteers manning the booth in this picture are, left to right, Mary,
Collene, Catherine, Peggy, and Kerry in the back.

Rummage Sale

We actually made a profit!
The Refuge held a Rummage sale Saturday August 29 from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM. at The Fellowship Hall of First Baptist Church Pleasanton, TX. Many donations were brought and sold. We actually made
a profit! We also received lots of good public awareness.

Love For Life Banquet

The Love for Life Banquet was a great success. We had a wonderful speaker Becky Hyde, and some very talented singers, Billy and Danny Myers, and a great true life story from Martha Ojeda. The food was wonderful as well. With donations at the banquet and pledges received afterwards, we are well on our way to having our new building. We will be having another banquet again in the spring;
so if you missed this fantastic event, plan ahead for our next banquet in April.

In Him
ColleneMyers
The Refuge
Atascosa Pregnancy Care Center
830-569-5883
TheRefugeAtascosa@yahoo.com
http://www.therefugeinatascosa.blogspot.com/

"You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb." (Ps. 139:13 NIV)

It is our pleasure to invite you to the second annual Love for Life Fund Raising Banquet for The Refuge Atascosa Pregnancy Care Center on April 30th! We hope you will come and find out what we are all about. There is no charge to attend and the dinner is complimentary. We would just like to get to know you and would like you to know more about us. We also want to give you the opportunity to partner with us if you would like. So come join us! Our speaker is Becky Hyde, from Arlington Texas. Billy and Danny Myers will also be thrilling us with some great songs. Prior to dinner we will be entertained by the Cowboy Jamboree band.

The Refuge has had some very exciting things going on the last couple of months! We opened at 815 School Drive in Poteet Texas! And now we are the proud new owners of a piece of property on Adams Street just a block east of the Pleasanton High School. We will begin to build once we have raised adequate funds. Our target date to open the new facility is January 2010.

Come join us at the VFW Hall in Poteet Texas. For more information see our invitation included with this letter or call us at 830-742-3447.

Please pray for:

• The Love for Life Banquet to go well
• My car to be repaired quickly and inexpensively
• All the women who will be coming into the center
  
  

In Him,

Collene Myers

The Refuge

Atascosa Pregnancy Care Center

PO Box 509

Pleasanton, Texas
830-742-3447/ 830-569-5883

Hope You All Had A Happy New Year!

I have been exceptionally busy!
I just sent out contribution reports to all of you wonderful supporters. Thanks also to all of you who have prayed for us and given to The Refuge in so many other ways.

Needed ASAP
We are working on getting settled into our new place. We still need a couple of ladies or other groups to decorate the counseling rooms. They are stark at present. I will include a picture for you to see what I mean. This is crucial and needs to be done ASAP, because we will be opening in 4 weeks. Thanks to all the great donations we received from the doctor in Granbury, we have all the furniture we need to furnish the rooms. They just need dressing up a bit (drapes, wall hangings, end or corner tables, and etc). Of course if you have other furniture you would
like to decorate with, we will be excited to discuss it with you.

Ooops! We also need at least two TV/DVDs for the counseling rooms and some people willing to purchase bundles of DVDs (cost of 5 approximately $100.00)
We are located in Poteet just a block from the school at 815 School Drive. It is an excellent location and has parking between our office and the dental office, which makes it difficult for anyone to know if a client’s car is there for us or the dentist. (See pictures below.)

PS The Parking lot also needs work.

Exciting News
We signed a contract on a lot in Pleasanton to build on. It is an excellent location as well, less than a block from Pleasanton High school. We have enough money to purchase the lot, but we will need more money to build. We have two donors, standing by waiting to contribute
a total of $50,000 in matching funds toward the building of a home for The Refuge Atascosa Pregnancy Care Center. If you contribute toward this project, your money will go twice as far since we will have matching contributions for every dollar you donate. Perhaps the company where you work would be interested in contributing matching funds.

Send all contributions to:
The Refuge Atascosa Pregnancy Care Center,
Po Box 509,
Pleasanton, TX, 78064
Or call 830-742-3447 or 830-569-5883 for more information.

Praise the Lord! What an amazing God we have! He has provided in ways I never expected!
Thank you Lord for the new center location, for the furniture and office equipment, for money to have my car worked on, and for the great piece of property we are purchasing!

Prayer Points

• Volunteers!!! That we will have lots of volunteers for the training.


• That we will recieve donationns that are needed before the openig.


• That we will be able to get everything organized quickly for opening.


• My 1994 Jeep Cherokee is having a few problems. Please pray for it’s healing as it is in the shop. God continues to provide. I was given money for it’s repair!!