Unity brings its own form of power. Unified, does not mean we are all the same. It doesn’t mean we all have the same belief system. Unified means we are all agreed upon a direction to move.
Severe Weather Shelter Network is unified in our passion and our purpose.
On shelter nights this looks like teams of people, with different backgrounds and different faith expressions, coming together to prevent people from freezing to death.
In the serving, we dignify and raise up people who have experienced the power of shunning, invisibility, criminalization and the feeling of powerlessness to make a change in their experience.
I celebrate the more than 50 guests who found the strength to make changes in their lives. Over the course of the shelter season they begin to receive, to be filled, to be restored. Words of encouragement and listening ears go a long way toward rebuilding what has been torn down.
We need each other. All of us. Every person brings experiences to the table that benefit another person. Differing views shared, with respect, help us all see a bigger and grander picture of what could be if we all worked together.
Severe Weather Shelter Network is participating in 40 HANDS in forty days right now. This campaign is all about being unified in purpose and passion. The 40 participating organizations all serve different people groups. All of us have a different perspective and passion. All of us are unified in the purpose of making our communities better through the work we do. We seek to elevate what is possible when people work together for the common good.
I invite you to visit 40handsinfortydays.org today. Check out the organizations listed there and give as you are led to give. Stand with us, UNIFIED in our desire to make a difference, to change the trajectory of someone’s life because you cared enough to give.
Leaning into what is to come,
Lynn Ann Huizingh