Year End Client Totals

We knew we picked up a few additional clients this year. We didn't know how many until now. Are you sitting down? If not, please do.

In 2005 we served 50 local clients. BUT in 2006 we served the following:

Angel Food - 163 individual familes feeding a total of 652 people!
Clothing Closet - 260 individual families for a total of 327* who received clothing. (*Some familes came in the winter and returned for spring clothes.)
Domestic Violence - 30 victims with 13 children.
Restorative Justice - 5 teens served court-ordered community service. (Most of the teens have served volunteer hours. One is now volunteering with his family!)

Plus all of the great online services that we offer!

This is why we do what we do. Thank you so much for making hope happen for the online world and for the local clients that we serve.

See ya online,
Gayle

PS. Additionally, we gave away 28 Bibles, served 2 homeless families and partnered with:

• Strawberry Plains United Methodist Church to provide food pantry boxes, gasoline and bill assistance.
• Strawberry Plains Presbyterian Church to provide Thanksgiving Baskets.
• Child and Family Services to provide parenting classes.
• First Baptist Church of Strawberry Plains to provide assistance for a teenage rape victim (who won her case!).
• I also served as a prayer counselor at A Queen's Banquet held by Stepping Out Ministries (with an attendance of 1,100 women) spoke to groups, gave out Christmas toys and offered the Hope of Christ to all who entered in.

All in all, it's been a busy year! I can't wait to see what 2007 has in store for us. Can you? :-)