The weekend of May 21 and 22 we had the honor of serving the families of Omaha. We began with setup on Thursday May 20. It was a bit challenging because there was a mix up on the times we needed some extra hands to help, but God is faithful and gave Terri, Shawna, Stephanie and I the strength we needed to get things ready to go on Friday morning. As you will see from the pictures, the space we were allowed to use was absolutely perfect for what we desired to do. A BIG THANK YOU to the CASA of Douglas County for allowing us the use of your building for this weekend.
As we began the day on Friday, the lines were forming by 8:00am. We began serving clients at 9 and for a full 3 hours we had a line for our checkout process. While things slowed down, we were never without a client in the room before we closed for the day at 8:00pm. God truly blessed the efforts of the Foster CARE Closet and the families that came. In total we served over 125 clients and thousands of items were given out.
On Saturday we had no idea how busy we would be with it being a holiday weekend, but much to our surprise there was a line again before we opened the doors at 9am. This day was not quite as busy but we still served about 100 clients and again, thousdands of items were given out. Again, there was hardly any time where we did not have clients in the building during our shopping hours until 4pm.
The total number of clients we served was 253 and over 2700 items were given out! I was amazed at what God had done to serve His children through the resources of the Foster CARE Closet.
Saturday with weary bodys we tore down and packed up what little we had to take back to Lincoln. It was amazing! What had taken a full 15 passenger van, a full SUV and two car loads to meet the needs of our clients in Omaha took less then 1/2 of the van to take back home and most of that was just the tools needed to set the Closet up. Needless to say, the need is great for our families in Omaha and we need to be praying for God to rise up a servent for His children in the Omaha area.
Thanks to the Omaha Foster Youth Council for the volunteers that they supported us with throughout the shopping hours. These young men and ladies did a fabulous job of helping support the clients as they shopped and we look forward to working with them again in the fall!
Stephanie and Baby getting things ready for Friday morning!
Shawna lining up the shoes for our clients
A few of the empty hangers we brought back to Lincoln after a successful weekend in Omaha
