Teri

You know the street.  You know the neighborhood.

It’s that neighborhood.  The one in your city inhabited by the prostitutes and drug dealers and the homeless people.  There might be a few neighborhoods like that where you live.

The people are nameless.  They live as if they are faceless.

They are broken.  They are lonely.  They are hopeless.

You know that street I’m talking about.

No one should be without hope.

We met a woman who is doing something about it.  Her name is Melissa and her heart has been broken for the women in that neighborhood in West Palm Beach, Florida.  She wants to give them hope.

She started simply by walking down the street and looking into the faces, asking for their names, and telling them that there is hope.  She told them that Jesus loves them.  Then she started showing them just how much.

She began a ministry called, Epic Beauty, whose purpose is to show the brokenhearted women that they are loved and they are beautiful.  Epic Beauty is a coalition of women committed to addressing the unique needs of women in crisis.  Their goal is to inspire, educate and counsel women so they can reach their full potential in life.

They reach out to hurting women, offering a better way of life by providing an environment where they can be restored to Christ and made whole. The ministry helps women by responding to their desire for help, participation in small groups, mentorship programs and training classes.

Then Melissa went even further.  She opened up a flower shop.

Epic Arrangements is a for-profit business designed to employ the women from the neighborhood who are choosing to take a second chance.  These are women who are choosing to walk away from their lifestyle and begin hoping for a better future with Christ.

Start something beautiful.  Do something epic.

Here is more about what Melissa is doing.

The lovely young lady in the video arranging the flowers is a dynamic dynamo.  Leah’s a dreamer.  Her passion is also to help the brokenhearted women stuck in homelessness, addiction, and prostitution.  Not only that, she also has a passion for flowers.  It was a match made in the Kingdom of God.  She stepped up and is helping serve Melissa’s dream.

Together they are going to welcoming in the first woman to the Epic Arrangement staff who is making her way back from the streets.  Melissa’s dream to see restoration in women’s lives is beginning to bloom.

You didn’t know flowers were so powerful, did you?

What’s your dream?