Last night was wonderful in so many ways. Tiffany who has been in Amsterdam for the past eight months, working with Scarlet Cord Amsterdam, is back in town! She will be here for about six weeks and then had back to Amsterdam. It was so wonderful to see Tiffany back home at Scarlet Cord. For both Tiffany and other volunteers, it was great to be able to put a face to a name too. Welcome back Tif! We also welcomed Joanne, a new volunteer to Scarlet Cord. We are excited to have you join us! Also, Bekah announced that she is getting married in August! We are all very happy for you Bekah! The rest of the team last night included Vania, Bailey, Laura, Carrie, Sandy, Muna and myself. It was quite a full room! The food was absolutely wonderful too! Glen brought some great sandwich fixins, Bailey brought some killer potato and chive soup and Sandy brought a wonderful chicken noodle soup that Carrie said was probably the best she's ever had! I must say that the sandwich and sup combo was perfect last night! Thanks everyone! Sandy also brought these great little gift mugs on behalf of Abundant Life for the volunteers present that night. They are these very sweet pink mugs with Starbucks goodies in them! Thank you Sandy, Judie and all the others at Abundant life!
Sandy, Muna and Joanne headed out as one of the street teams and covered most of Sandy in our neighborhood. Vania and I went out towards 82nd area. We had a wonderful conversation with "H" at one of the lingerie shows. She was getting ready for work and was telling us that she works 16 hour days every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. She said that she and the other girls love when we come in to talk. She thinks it's great what we do and wishes she could have an opportunity to come to Scarlet Cord. We're hoping that maybe the girls could sneak out for a few minutes one friday night so they could actually have some dinner with us! We were also greeted nicely at all of our regular stops and were able to talk with a couple ladies out on the street as well. It always amazes me how just the simple gesture of inviting someone to dinner can soften someone's face so much. I love it!
Back at home a new guest, J, came in for some dinner. She stayed for quite a while and seemed to have a good time. Also, D came in before work. It is always nice to see her and it seems every time she comes in she is more relaxed and even smiles more now too!
Also, we had a prayer request from our security guard last night. His mom fell a couple days ago and went into the hospital because of some complications last night. He is quite worried about her and asked if we could pray for her. I let him know she is in our prayers.
I hope you all have a fantastic week!
Love,
Amanda
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