Special points of interest:
(See below for articles on past events)
The Refuge
Atascosa Pregnancy Care Center
At Cowboy Homecoming!!!
August Rummage Sale
Love For Life Banquet
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
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)
