{"id":5660,"date":"2013-05-21T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=5660"},"modified":"2013-05-21T09:18:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:18:42","slug":"pray-for-oklahoma-%e2%80%94-convoy-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=5660","title":{"rendered":"Pray for Oklahoma \u2014 Convoy of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/okla.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"2\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/>As a Kansas City-based organization, we are very close to our neighbors to the south in Oklahoma. We cannot imagine the devastation that has taken place in the aftermath of a series of horrific storms on Sunday and Monday. The pictures and video footage just don&#8217;t do it justice.<\/p>\n<p>The stories of children still trapped under the rubble of their elementary school, presumed dead, in the dark of night as I write this are leaving me with such immense grief.<\/p>\n<p>As a ministry we are coming up on our <a href=\"http:\/\/wholewomenministries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">once-a-year fundraising push<\/a> in the month of June and while that is important as it relates to our present and future projects, today I feel it is more important that I ask you to please give toward the relief efforts taking place in OKC, Moore and the other surrounding Oklahoma towns that were affected by this tragedy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/donate.convoyofhope.org\/okc-midwest-tornado-response\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/convoyhope.gif\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"1\" width=\"159\" height=\"37\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>A wonderful organization called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.convoyofhope.org\/\">Convoy of Hope<\/a> has designated a relief fund for this area and you can make a donation by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/donate.convoyofhope.org\/okc-midwest-tornado-response\">clicking here<\/a><\/strong>. OR you can text the word CONVOY to 50555 to donate $10 right from your phone.\u00a0<em>Convoy of Hope<\/em> is a faith-based nonprofit who has served more than 55 million people throughout the world through international children\u2019s feeding initiatives, community outreaches, disaster response and partner resourcing. Many OKC-area churches, including LifeChurch.tv in Edmond, OK, are partnering with Convoy of Hope so you can feel secure in knowing your donation will be used well.<\/p>\n<p>Please continue to pray for God&#8217;s comfort and peace in the lives of those affected. And let us know if your friends and\/or family have been affected.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The LORD is close to the brokenhearted&#8230;&#8221; Psalm 34:18<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<br \/>\nCrystal Renaud<br \/>\n<em>Founder &amp; Executive Director<br \/>\nWHOLE Women Ministries<br \/>\nDirty Girls Ministries<br \/>\nWHOLE Women&#8217;s Conference<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Kansas City-based organization, we are very close to our neighbors to the south in Oklahoma. We cannot imagine the devastation that has taken place in the aftermath of a series of horrific storms on Sunday and Monday. The pictures and video footage just don&#8217;t do it justice. The stories of children still trapped&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=5660\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pray for Oklahoma \u2014 Convoy of Hope<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,193,183,191,189,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-227","category-community","category-crystal-renaud","category-donate","category-partners","category-prayer","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5660"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5665,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660\/revisions\/5665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}