Jubilee REACH Center has been bustling with activity above and beyond our normal programs. Our staff prepared and served a traditional Thanksgiving meal to 75 of the “English as a Second Language” (ESL) students. For many, it was their very first Thanksgiving experience. What an experience it was…there was lots of laughter and oh so much food!
My main goal at Jubilee REACH Center is to solicit foundations, companies, private individuals, businesses, and city, county, state and federal agencies for grants or donations of money that do not need to be repaid. I attended a conference in June in Florida to learn how to do this. The process is time consuming and sometimes you won’t receive a response to your request for money for months. I sent off my first grant application this week to Build A Bear Hug Foundation for a $10,000 request for a kindergarten readiness program called Story Time/Play & Learn here at Jubilee. Please pray it would be reviewed with excitement and acceptance and awarded to us.
Last Saturday, the Hebron medical team from Christ Church of Kirkland put on a free medical clinic. They do this once a month at Jubilee. They are an amazing group of physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, medical assistants, a pharmacist and a receptionist. They transformed the “big room” into an area for taking medical histories and vital signs and three small classrooms into exam rooms, and set up a pharmacy in about half an hour. Joined by four translators, I witnessed an amazing day as they entered with a look of concern and left with a smile on their face because of the professional treatment, medications, advice, prayer and encouragement given. Many of our local residents have no health care insurance and this is their only health care. Like this medical clinic, our building is filled with so any different ministries and programs that synergize with JRC to make some life–changing differences in many of our neighbors.
Thank you for your prayers and support. Your support is making life-changing differences to many.
