I can feel that it is almost the “peak season” for Asha’s Refuge… If you will forgive me for calling it that. It seems like the end of the year we have more donations than any other time of year. It would make sense seeing that the holidays and giving season seems to be November, December and January. It’s a blessing, however, I often wonder why the giving is often so much dryer throughout the rest of the year. Maybe the hype of Thanksgiving and Christmas and after tax season seems to be what causes us all to find within ourselves a heart to give or to stretch ourselves and be able to give.

I’ve been challenged myself more and more to give regularly and to give “just because” the Holy Spirit impresses on me to at any time of day, week, year or season. I think it’s really a blessing to see so many take serious the heart of Thanksgiving and Christmas because it’s true…surely this time of year followers of Jesus would be compelled even more to find ways of giving back all the while being examples of Jesus’s love and brightening His light from within them. I’m thinking out loud here… I guess I’m trying to say… Friends, don’t forget to help out through out the entire year as you are prayerfully led to. It’s challenging for us to take a one time large giving season and try and spread it out carefully budgeting, managing donations and financial support throughout an entire year. I think many nonprofits struggle with this. We want to say thank you of course and do not want to be ungrateful for what a huge blessing the giving seasons are to us as we continue to support the local refugee needs.

We will try and do our part better by expressing the specific needs to our supporters more often. The busyness of serving on the ground and our everyday lives can often cause it to be challenging for us to relay all that is going on and all that we may need. You’ll soon see an updated website that we pray will make understanding who we are, what we do and what our current needs are clearer so that you can also share with others or be involved in more ways.

You can now choose Asha’s Refuge as your nonprofit of choice to donate a percentage of the total cost of your order to support our local refugee initiatives any time you shop at Amazon. Check out Amazon’s Smile program at smile.amazon.com! You can do this year round! ;). And…thank you. I trust you too will be blessed.