Doors open to clients on
Mondays: 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Thursdays: 9:00 to 11:00 a.m.

Sorting and Preparation
Tuesdays: 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Smitty and Peggy Smith Join Benevolence Center Management

Two long-time enthusiastic supporters of the Benevolence Center, Smitty and Peggy Smith, have taken on the day-to-day management activities of the BC.

We welcome their innovative ideas and energetic work that iwll help take the BC to the next phase of being a blessing to the Green Lawn neighborhood as well as to the rest of Lubbock.

Billie Mitchell, who has headed up the BC work for many years, will continue to work closely with them in their new leadership role.

Adopt a Need:
Bible Class Projects for the Benevolence Center

The BC has been tremendously blessed in the past few months by your abundant generosity, especially with clothing. Because there is no budgeted funds for clothing, toiletries, or household items, we rely on donations for these items.

Would your Bible Class like to participate in helping to provide some specific needs for the BC? Maybe you would like to adopt a category on a permanent basis, or rotate several items through the year.

We have a continual need for such daily necessities as bath soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, hand lotion, shampoo, shavers, etc. These hygiene items are important for our clients, just like food and clothes.

Another continuing need is for children's clothing of all ages.

If you would like to participate with the BC in such a project, and would like to get further guidelines, please talk with Smitty and Peggy Smith or Billie Mitchell.

As you bless others, get ready for your own blessing!

A generous man will himself be blessed,
for he shares his food with the poor.
- Proverbs 22:9

Please pray with us as we make plans for adding another day to open the BC for clients. We are asking for wisdom in choosing the best day and time, as well as for volunteers to staff the center on that day who will enjoy working with and serving the clients.

Survival Skills:
Can You Cope in Economic Adversity?

Give yourself a check-up test on your survival skills. Do you know how to:

• Live without electricity and a phone?
• Live without a checking account?
• Get around without a car?
• Get help when you don't have money to pay your bills?

If you answered yes to these questions, you have the necessary skills to cope in very constrained economic conditions.

To help those of us who could not manage in these difficult economic circumstances, to understand the plight of those who do, Ruby Payne wrote a book called A Framework for Understanding Poverty. It is from her book that these question selections were taken.

Another insightful book is Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Betting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.