It's A Gift!
Early in the morning, two days before the preloading of the fall container in Arley, I received a phone call from Karen Redic. Karen works at the Wal-Mart Distribution Center in LaGrange, Georgia.  Over the past couple of years she has provided AHMEN with lots of shelf pulls and products with damaged packaging for our friends in Honduras. Her voice on the phone asked “Could you use 700 new tee shirts?”  That is the way things happen in this ministry. Needs arise, and solutions are provided.

The tee shirts are bright red, with the Wal-Mart logo on them. They were part of an internal promotion within the Wal-Mart organization.  The tee shirts had a very slight cosmetic flaw (the graphic on the back was a little crooked and a little off-center). Karen said that the shirts had been returned to the supplier, American Solutions for Business, and that Gerald Sweet, the Sales Executive with American Solutions, wanted to donate the shirts to a good cause. We were at Gerald’s warehouse the next day to pick up the shirts and prepare them for delivery to Arley.

We are grateful to Karen and the Wal-Mart organization for their continued support of our efforts. Additionally we appreciate Gerald and American Solutions for Business for their generous donation. So when you are in Honduras this next year and you see someone wearing a bright red Wal-Mart tee shirt with a slightly crooked graphic, make a mental note of where you are and let me know. I will be interested in tracking how far and wide the generosity flows. 

Amor en Cristo,

Mary and guf