HANDS & HEARTS: part 2

after karen had already said yes to the bracelets, i received an email from a different caryn, in texas, that i'd never heard from before.  she had learned about our ministry from a mutual friend of ours, and expressed interest in the women of her church being part of any upcoming gifts we were planning. 

i told her about the YOU ARE GOLD themed gift and bracelets, and let her know that we'd welcome handmade cards to attach to the gifts. she said they'd be delighted to make them. about a month later we received a huge box in the mail of embellished delights.

the cards, as you can see, were

gorgeous

extravagant

&

fancy

(very fitting for our

GOLD theme, i must say)

...

they were dressed

in hues of gold & black

as if they were on their way to a ball;

tied with matching bows & sequins-

the details were exquistite

...

women to women

women for women

...

hands & hearts

in texas

for women in hamburg

with hands & hearts

in desperate need of a

pure as gold touch

...

the beauty on the outside of the cards

equally matched the beauty

of the message within:

in german, it read

Du bist Gold wert!

which is not a direct translation of

  YOU ARE GOLD,

but says something like

YOU ARE AS WORTHY AS GOLD

notice the bracelet--

the girls in california made sure

that there was a bracelet made

for each one of us, too

you may remember from the other gifts that we've given that we believe it's important for us to handwrite a personal greeting to each woman.  this time, we wrote a simple

God bless you!

Krista & Rebekka

those texas hands & hearts were also intent on blessing our brothel team as well.  tucked away in the big box of cards we found these, that again, were made for each one us, thanking us for our minstry to the women. 

here are the precious hands

of little miss grace

showing off one of the treasures

also included in the box they sent

were 250 little golden satchels.

to find out what each sack of gold contained,

and most importantly,

to learn about the women's responses

to these golden gifts of love,

check back tomorrow