Each PCL girl got a special note to remind them how much they are loved.
We love what God is doing in and through CGgirls. Don't you??!!
The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but victory rests with the LORD. Proverbs 21:31
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb." Psalm 139:13
"You mean I can have as much chocolate as I want??" - PCL Girl!
Oh and did they ever! Cotton Candy was even dunked in that fountain! :)
For me personally, I was not prepared for how deeply the "encouragement tree" would affect our PCL girls. Looking back now we see it was the Lord's hand leading us to put that tree up. Those notes of encouragement (168 in total) that several of you wrote during the last CG event deeply ministered to our PCL girls. When I say deeply...I mean... DEEPLY. Tears. Lots of them. The PCL girls could not believe that women who did not know them would care enough to write them. They were sincerely touched. Watching that unfold has profoundly changed so many of us who witnessed it.
"I never got a card before in my life."
"I feel like they know me."
"How could they know thats how I feel?"
"I'm keeping every single one of these cards and hanging them in my room"
All of the girls opened up the one gift under the tree with their name on it. Thrilled to receive their "one" gift. They jumped up and down and screamed! :) Some of the girls, never took their robes off the entire time! We loved how God worked it out for the PCL girl who loves Tinkerbell to receive the Tinkerbell robe and the two roommates and best friends got matching robes. :)
And then the gift explosion happened! One by one each ELF came in calling out a PCL girl's name and all of their gifts came in like a flowing river. It was amazing! A few of the PCL girls were so overwhelmed they sat and cried before opening any gifts. It was almost too much for them. We aren't able to post any of those pictures publicly (a complete recap video will be shown at the next CG on January 27, 2012) but hopefully you'll get the picture painted for you just by these comments:
"All of this is for me?"
" One would have been enough."
"This is my favorite movie!"
"I get a bible with both the New and Old Testament?"
"Someone wrote me a note in the journal...see!"
"SpongeBob is my husband ... I love this movie"
All of the girls received the book Redeeming Love and they would yell out, "BOOKCLUB!" when one would open it.
"How did you know I loved the color Pink?"
"This is my birthstone!"
CGGirls, remember those Old Navy Hoodies?
"Is this new? I can't believe I got something new!"
"I love this smell. It's the store smell."
God showed them in a very personal way they are not forgotten. Not only are they not forgotten -- they are loved and a treasure of great value.
I can't thank you enough for all of your generous donations, the tireless hours spent shopping, wrapping and preparing.
We wanted God to be honored with putting our very best effort forth and I believe that happened. We believe PCL was completely authored by God.
So thankful that He chooses to use us when writing someone else's story, aren't you?
The PCL girls came back to the Christmas Play at Connection Church that evening and gave me this beautiful thank you note:
"Dear CG Girls, Thank you so much for the lunch and all the presents! We appreciated it alot and it meant so much to us. I don't think words can explain. It really brightened our day and showed alot of us that there is a God. And there are people who care about us. Thank you so much!"
This will be at each place setting for Project Crazy Love!
It's starting to come together...
Loving those far from God is easier when we remember that all of us have been far from God at some point.
God is a great Father.
Crazy in love with His creation. It's often called His Unfailing Love in the Word.
This all-knowing God, the One who is captivated with each one of us...knows.
Let that set in today...chicks, we are known.
He loves us with the full knowledge of exactly who we are.
That is the love story He has invited us into...each one of us.
Who of us doesn't love a great love story?
Will you consider helping 14 girls who are far from God see that they are known, loved and invited
into the greatest love story ever?
Project Crazy Love: Friday, October 21st 7pm
Connection Church
3855 Sheldon Rd.
Canton, MI 48188
Ok, Ok...I'm in! Now what?
1. Bring your unwrapped
gifts to the event on Friday, Oct. 21st. If you weren't at the last
event and didn't get a chance to pull a gift tag from the stinkin' cute
pink Christmas Tree then please feel free to bring a gift card (you
choose the $$$) from one of these stores: Meijer, Walmart, Kohls, Old
Navy or Target.
2. Are you like me and use bags at Christmas instead of wrapping paper? Well
if you are and have been wondering what to do with all of the half
used Christmas wrap in your closets...we have a solution! Please bring
it to the event on Friday, October 21st! We'll hand it off to the
Project Crazy Love gift wrap team.
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother's womb.
I thank you, High God—you're breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I'd even lived one day. MSG (Psalm 139:13-16)
