You are part of this transformational chain

Hi Body of Christ,

Brooks writes a wonderfully descriptive piece (below) on the plight of so many women and how you are part of a transformational chain in their lives.

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Many women simply exist… YOU provide hope!

Matter of factly, she told me, "I was an only child. My mother left my father when she was pregnant with me. We went and stayed with my grandmother until I was 10 years old. That was when my father stole me away from her. He married many women. I was treated as a house girl and they used the money he gave them for themselves and their children, instead of for my schooling and needs. Finally, when I was 18, I met a man and one month later we married. It was easier to marry than to stay home and have many men come and bother me."

Many women exist. They survive. They endure. They do not live. Their stories are written on their faces. The mask held in place cannot hide the fear and worry that is etched so deeply there. One day is no different than the last. The hardships of no money, no food, no clothes, no shoes, sickness, oppression and abuse, and even the reality of probably the premature death of at least one of their children are their realities. Sadness and loss beyond what we can imagine. Life bound to a yoke of plodding through endless days and years … no change imagined beyond the life that was passed onto them.

But because of you … there is hope for change … for another and another

There is a hand extended to lift them from the depths of this kind of despair. A way is shown through a new life in Jesus Christ. The message of a transformed mind … a heart that begins to beat with the exhilarating joy of hope and possibilities. It may be only one, but that one turns to the one beside her, who then extends her hand and that one also comes to life, and so the chain is lengthened … the chain of one woman reaching one woman, reaching one woman. And, so it continues … hope electrified by the power of God, surging through a woman and then a family, a community, a nation. Thank you for extending the flame of your fire to the nations. This woman and many like her thank you.

Blessings,
Roger & Brooks