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girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes.

May 19, 2016 by Stephen & Kelli Spurlock Filed Under: kelli, photos, playhouse 1 Comment

Spoiler: There weren’t really any white dresses or blue sashes. But there were beautiful dresses all the same, and even more beautiful girls. And these are a few of our favorite people wearing their favorite things!

IMG_2832Some friends of ours in town wrote us last week to ask if we’d be interested in having 20 dresses donated to girls in our community. They had a friend of theirs–a 9-year-old Iraqi–who wanted to give other girls her age the opportunity to wear beautiful dresses like she can. She raised funds to pay for a local Burmese seamstress, who works with our friends at Global Alms, to make all twenty dresses and give them out in a local community.

And we are that community! We were so honored to have them ask.

IMG_2949We always love a chance to bless these friends. This in particular was just such a great opportunity. We live in a neighborhood where things are seemingly always breaking: families, houses, clothes, opportunities. It feels like everything is coming apart at the seams.

To bring in bright colors, beautiful ribbons, gathered fabric, and flowing skirts full of innocence and beauty; handmade with love–this is an opportunity not to be missed!

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Excuse my arm in this shot, but I love her face! IMG_3168
IMG_3087 IMG_3141 IMG_3126It is so fun to see their confidence soar as they try to minimize their visible excitement!

IMG_3199We are so thankful for friends around us in Mae Sot partnering with us in the community. We have a family that comes to our house weekly to play with the kids; another family blessed our community with their tithe this month. We had computers donated last month, and now dresses!

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Comments

  1. Sherie cartwright says

    May 20, 2016 at 12:36 am

    That is a HAPPY update!!! Isn’t fun to give something new.

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