one thing blog

Why we began and who we are becoming…

I’m sitting in my beautiful, warm home, complaining about the mess and work I need to do. My belly fat from the excess, as I groan about my husbands job, while so many are out of work. I fuss about the stress of children while so many wanting wombs sit empty. I complain about going for groceries while the vast majority of women cannot feed their families. My faith as flabby as my arms…I cannot wrap my brain around the depravity most women face. The rape in the Congo. The murders in the Sudan. The stolen children. And so I sit and I eat cheesecake.

How dare I? How dare I sit while the world goes to hell? Even worse…while they inhabit hell? Here where the dark dominion strangle holds us? While children are exploited and enslaved?

I get weekly emails from International Justice Mission, Amnesty International, World Vision, Persecuted church. I stare appalled, sick for 48 hours, and then, without an immediate solution in sight, I fall back into apathy, and flabby extravagance, and compassion fatigue.
Until today. Today in my heart is born ‘Girls Night Giving Circle’. It is just a small thing. But it is something. My passion is to care for widows and orphans. To clothe the naked. Give drink to the thirsty. Feed the hungry. Set the captives free.

Please join me once a month as we learn about a group of marginalized, exploited or otherwise broken, group of women. We will also donate what we can to a worthy organization. There will be no minimum and no maximum amount to give. Expensive month? Dig a nickel form you purse and join us.

Month of plenty? Unexpected bounty? Share more!

But come…learn…pray…

We as women ARE the centre of our families, the ‘soft place’ for our societies, daughters of a King.

Our evenings together will be simple. A brief 20 minutes on our ‘women of the month’, a prayer shouted up, and money collected. Then we will enjoy each others company and the blessings we bring to share. Perhaps it is a craft one month, or desert, or a hot tub, or a themed movie. Your children are welcome here. My dream is that we will grow so large that we break into groups all over town.

If you would like to be on my email invite list please respond. Not interested? Feel NO PRESSURE. I know what schedules are like, I know many of you are at full capacity for your giving. Come and meet Jesus face to face…whatever we do for the least of these…

Contact Melissa for more information:

Past Events:

November: Team Aylard To Uganda

December: Write For Rights (Amnesty International)

January: Haiti Relief Kits (MCC)

February: Full Stop Now

March: At the End of Slavery (Documentary)

April: Dress A Girl Around the World