Our mission is intersecting faith and community to empower
Grayson County families to end child homelessness.
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Message from our Executive Director |
HAPPY FALL, Y’ALL!
While the weather is turning cooler, things are starting to warm up for us! After six months of sheltering our guests at one site, we slowly are returning to rotating between our host congregations! Our current guests (a mom, dad, and their 5-month old daughter) are able to experience more of the love and hospitality that our volunteers give so extravagantly. Of course, the health and safety of our guests and volunteers remains a top priority, and each congregation is making decisions based on their church’s needs.
Scroll down to find out more about what is going on!
Thank you for showing Christ’s love in so many ways. May you feel His abundant love in return.
Joyfully,
Leigh Walker
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North Texas Giving Day was a HUGE success for our region! Thanks to you, $58.8 million was raised for over 3,200 nonprofit organizations in the North Texas region. Family Promise of Grayson County had 31 online donations totaling $3662. Additional donations have been given offline. We are so grateful for the generosity of so many! Thank you for sharing our vision of a community where no child is homeless.
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Nationally, Belk has partnered with Family Promise as part of its Project Hometown initiative. The retailer provides support to Affiliates and families across Family Promise's southern region. Belk also is funding the development of 10 new Family Promise Affiliates.
As part of this partnership, we are selling Belk Charity Sale coupons. When you purchase a $5 coupon, you’ll get $10 off your Belk purchase during the sale. The sale is October 9th through 11th. You can shop in store or online. 100% of the funds raised through coupon sales by Family Promise of Grayson County goes back to our Affiliate. Coupons can be purchased online at familypromisegrayson.org or with a check at the Day Center. If you purchase your coupon on our website, we will contact you, so that you can pick up your coupon(s). If you have any questions, please call 903-771-0322.
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You are AMAZING!! In less than a month, since the need for hosts first was mentioned in the September newsletter, 80% of the 2021 hosting calendar has been filled! With the entire fourth quarter of this year left, eleven congregations already have committed to hosting guests of Family Promise of Grayson County in 2021! That level of commitment will help us achieve our mission of intersecting faith and community to empower Grayson County families to end child homelessness! Thank you!
From among these congregations, special thanks and big welcomes go out to our host congregations that provided meals and hospitality to our guests in September:
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Covenant Presbyterian church; Covenant not only hosted in September, but also has provided our guests with shelter since COVID-19 shut down our rotation. (That’s HUGE!) They do not have a new pastor to welcome (thankfully!), but their pastor and her husband have a new baby! Welcome Baby Lincoln!
Thank you again! ♥
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Get to Know the Family Promise Board |
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This month's featured Board member is Brett Evans. Brett was born and raised in Denison. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in 1998 from TCU, and earned his Juris Doctorate from Texas Tech School of Law in Lubbock, Texas, in 2001. He began his legal career in Fort Worth. He then moved back home to Denison in 2014 and opened the Law Office of Brett L. Evans, PC in in 2017 in the same office where his father, Larry Evans, had practiced law for over 30 years. Brett is also the Associate Municipal Judge for the City of Denison. Brett lives in Denison with his wife Hillary and their two children, Emerson and Knox. The Evans family attends First United Methodist Church Sherman.
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Besides being a lot of fun, the purpose of the Annual Family Promise Bed Race is to raise funds to support the mission of Family Promise. While we could not race the beds this year, we are SO thankful that many of our previous sponsors chose to sponsor the Bed Race anyway and keep COVID-19 from winning! Bed Race sponsorships are used to help the guests of Family Promise of Grayson County attain stable housing.
Even though you are not going to be able to race your bed, if you would like to get your money out of your mattress and be a 2020 Bed Race sponsor, please go to familypromisegrayson.org. Thank you SO much to our loyal sponsors!
The following sponsors ALL are winners in our book:
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For the past few months, we have been hosting monthly Zoom calls with the Family Promise Coordinators from each congregation. This call is open to all of our volunteers, and it is a great place to discuss any suggestions or ideas you might have. Our next meeting is at noon on Monday, 10/19. If you are a Coordinator, please watch your email for the link. If you are not a Coordinator but would like to participate, please call Leigh or Amyee at 903-771-0322, and we will send you the link. These calls usually last about half an hour. Hope to see you! |
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Prayers for Our Community |
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As always, we covet your prayers for the health, safety, and well-being of our guests, our volunteers, our congregations, our community, and our world.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. Amen
(The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi)
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If you would like to learn more about Family Promise of Grayson County including:
- How to participate
- How to volunteer
- How to support through donations
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