Your HEART has the power to TRANSFORM!

Spotlight-Strategies (parent entity of Franklin Printing and The Stitch Smith) would like to recognize a special customer, Haven and challenge you to give of your HEART this Holiday Season.

The holiday season is upon us and for most it brings comfort, warmth, abundance and the love and support of family. But for many single women it is marked with reminders of all that was lost, and or lacking and a life of struggling is magnified.

Recent studies indicate the fastest growing demographic of homelessness in the U.S. is single women with children. A startling statistic that hits close to home considering, in 2006 alone, 32% of babies born in Johnson County are born to single mothers.

Ask any of these single women what they need most and the response would be, not judgment, pity or a hand-out. Empowerment, encouragement and enrichment, an opportunity to create for themselves, and their children, a life of hope and promise represents their heart’s desire.

Finding yourself single and or single-with-children can be devastating as well as paralyzing. But with a little help the lives of women and children can be transformed. Enter in Haven, A Sanctuary for Women.

Haven’s unique mission and vision is to enable single women to form a healthy relationship with Christ and their community while actively using their gifts to benefit others. It bridges generations and does not discriminate with regard to age, race or socioeconomic status thereby delivering care and support to the women who need it most. Haven plans to build a community to help get these women back on their feet. With the support of our staff, volunteers, and each other, women will regain hope and the ability to see a renewed future!

Consider ways to Give your heart away this season to impact lives throughout the year.

Action steps you can take now:
Go to havenwomensministry.org to learn more about the needs of this unique ministry.
Choose to make an impact here in your community:
Give financially. (Haven has identified land to purchase, an architect with housing plans for the community, and a builder.)
Give your time. Volunteer opportunities are plenty.
Give your resources. Do you have gifts and abilities and or resources that would enrich the lives of other women?
Link arms with a friend or friends to volunteer and multiply the impact. Spread the word.

Choose now to Give your heart and assist in the transformation of the lives of the women of Haven.