On Monday it was our privilege to travel back to a previous appointment to attend the funeral of an amazing lady called Margaret. I have blogged about her and her great friend Myra before. Theirs is a great Salvation Army story. Margaret had been going through a tough time and was desperately unhappy. Her Salvationist neighbour Myra invited her to the Army where Margaret got saved and became a soldier.
Her life was transformed and because it was a practical option Margaret and Myra decided to flat share. They had a spare bedroom and this gave Margaret an idea. Soon each week that bedroom became the Sunday room and was full of children from the council estate enjoying Sunday school. To raise money for outings and equipment but also to meet a social need, "M and M" as we all called them, began clothing sales on the wall outside the Post Office. They stored the clothing in the flat so people from the estate could come at anytime if they were in need.
Soon all kinds of people were going to M and M's door for all kinds of things, not just clothes. A teenager who had been beaten by his Dad, a mother who had seen her husband taken into custody for child abuse and her children taken into care, an elderly lady who was in distress because her dog had died, another who had spent all her pension on the lottery. Having seen what M and M did for the children some of the women on the estate complained that there was nothing for them. A ladies fellowship begain in the lounge. It was soon packed to the rafters, so much so that when the DC visited he had to sit on the floor! In addition to all this they both worked tirelessly for the main corps and managed to look after our children and on a regular basis. The picture above is of Margaret, taken in a hospital in Romania that looked after babies with Aids.
And if ever people say they they do not have enough faith, enough energy, enough resources to do what God is telling them to do I say, "Let me tell you about two ladies........
God bless
Carol
Her life was transformed and because it was a practical option Margaret and Myra decided to flat share. They had a spare bedroom and this gave Margaret an idea. Soon each week that bedroom became the Sunday room and was full of children from the council estate enjoying Sunday school. To raise money for outings and equipment but also to meet a social need, "M and M" as we all called them, began clothing sales on the wall outside the Post Office. They stored the clothing in the flat so people from the estate could come at anytime if they were in need.
Soon all kinds of people were going to M and M's door for all kinds of things, not just clothes. A teenager who had been beaten by his Dad, a mother who had seen her husband taken into custody for child abuse and her children taken into care, an elderly lady who was in distress because her dog had died, another who had spent all her pension on the lottery. Having seen what M and M did for the children some of the women on the estate complained that there was nothing for them. A ladies fellowship begain in the lounge. It was soon packed to the rafters, so much so that when the DC visited he had to sit on the floor! In addition to all this they both worked tirelessly for the main corps and managed to look after our children and on a regular basis. The picture above is of Margaret, taken in a hospital in Romania that looked after babies with Aids.
And if ever people say they they do not have enough faith, enough energy, enough resources to do what God is telling them to do I say, "Let me tell you about two ladies........
God bless
Carol
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