Anew matching scarf, toboggan and gloves might not seem like a lot for Christmas, but for 250 women and 120 children and youth at Nashville Rescue Mission it could be everything.
Along with the new winter accessories, the women at the shelter received a bag of toiletries and other goodies as well as a Bible. The children received fun items appropriate for their age.
“They are ‘bags of hope’ because of the Bible inside,” said Shea Lowery, executive director of Lives Being Restored, the Alabama-based ministry that sponsors the Bags of Hope outreach to the rescue mission.
About 200 churchgoers from northwest Alabama and northeast Mississippi gathered in Russellville on Dec. 13 to bring items for the bags. They also wrote letters to the women who would receive the bags, which were delivered Dec. 18.
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