Today was such a great day at Asha’s Refuge. We have our English Conversation/preschool classes each Friday (we want to add more class days in the future). Our students were all so eager to get to class. Our bus driver and I were a little sad when picking them all up on our 25 passenger bus because we were packed full with students and we had not arranged for additional pick ups. I had to turn about 6 refugee students away. (It was a feeling like, there was no room for them in the Inn).

Asha’s Refuge works with about fifty families right now and if all of our women with preschoolers came at the same time we simply would not have room on our bus to take them all to class. We have in the past (when our students let us know before hand that they were coming) ran additional pickups for them using a volunteers van and our cars. We pick refugee students up in the Binghampton area and bus them to our beautiful location at New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Germantown, TN. The use of the New Bethel bus with Mr. Mac as our committed driver and the space at New Bethel has truly been a blessing to us. This space came to us at just the right time.

We have, however, continued to pray about and look for available space that is in the community of Binghampton (Memphis) so that we are more easily accessible to our refugee friends. Busing our friends back and forth can be challenging and costly on us and the New Bethel Church gas wise. Even though we routinely and always will make in home visits to our friends they are begging of us to open our doors for various classes more often. Please pray with us that adequate and affordable space in the Binghampton area will open up. We want whatever space God would have for us and trust that He will have something more perfect than we could ever imagine. Thank you for your encouragement, help in volunteerism, financial support and sincere prayers. Thank you New Bethel Missionary Baptist in Germantown, TN for your open doors and dedication to this ministry as we continue to seek Gods direction for us.