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February 2018
AWAKE COFFEE COMMUNITY
EVERYONE VALUED AND WELCOMED
PET OF THE MONTH
them which fosters trust. Sometimes we
have been able to reconnect them with
family which has helped them get off the
streets.
We accept donations for project Re-
Home at AWAKE which funds everything
from “comfort bags” (bags with necessity
items and toiletries) to temporary housing
assistance. We believe that a hand up
and caring heart is changing lives for the
better. We hope you will partner with us.
L
ocal Outreach, Relationships, and
Community. That is the heart of
what we do at AWAKE. We work
towards showing love in practical ways.
Being in Olde Town, we have the privilege
of getting to know our community and all
the different people who make it up, on a
personal level. Whether it’s a judge from
across the street at the courthouse or the
man who lives under a nearby bridge and
walks to his job daily at Goodwill, we
try to make everyone feel welcomed and
valued.
As the local Outreach coordinator, my
team and I usually work with those who
are displaced and in need of assistance.
The needs may range from a warm meal
and hot cup of coffee to resources for
housing assistance. We try and connect
everyone in need with a community
partner who may be able to assist them.
We routinely team up with organizations
like Rockdale Emergency Relief, Conyers
First United Methodist Church, Refuge
Pregnancy Center and Partnership for
Community Action among others to find
assistance that may help move them out
of the place of need into a productive life.
We do this by building relationships with
Toni Kelecheck
Local Outreach Project Manager
AWAKE Coffee Co
W
hen we brought Rainbow Fish
home, he was all white and
wasn’t looking very healthy.
The fish department salesperson said
he was white because he was afraid and
nervous about the other fish on the shelf.
I will confess I wanted to pick out a fish
that had better chances of surviving, but
my husband wanted the white one. So we
took a risk and brought the stressed out
and dying fish home. Within the first few
days, he started to relax, and his white
appearance seemed pinker in color. Within
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a week he started showing some actual
color! It was so exciting and rewarding to
see that the little fish was going to make
it! We waited to name him because we
wanted to see what color he would turn.
Every day more and more color appeared
to him. Now he has so much color that
from some angles he seems to be black!
We are happy to report we have one happy
and healthy fish who lives in our kitchen.
Welcome to the family Rainbow Fish!
DEVOTIONAL
CHILD LIKE LOVE
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enable the devil to whisper worry in
your ears, binding you to his deceptive
lies. I know as well as anyone that
sometimes it can be complicated to
allow indeed love to be our motivation.
Even feeling worthy to embrace this
kind of love can be overwhelming!
So when that fear or worry starts to
try to creep it’s way into your heart
and thoughts, remember this piece of
truth from Corrie Ten Boom: “There
is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not
deeper still.” Love has been perfected
among us through Christ Jesus so that
we may boldly stand before the Lord
our God. Love has been perfected
among us through Christ so that we
can openly proclaim to those fears of a
financial crisis, fears of relational ruin,
fears of social or personal inadequacy
and to the enemy that they have no
hold on you because you are a child of
God who has known true love!
omeone once told me that
the two purest things in the
world are childhood and
marriage. This is because, in both, we
are entirely unhindered! Maybe we
haven’t all been married, but we have
all been children. Do you remember,
Prayer:
as a child, playing tag? Or maybe
cops and robbers? You would run
Oh my God,
and run as fast as you could until you
collapsed on the ground, completely
Speak your love over me in the
out of breath, giggling with joy and light of the dawn. In the dim of the
excitement! You were worry-free, night, awaken my heart to the beat
completely unafraid, and unburdened! of Yours. Invest Your word in the
confines of myself. Cause Your wild
1 John 4:17-19 says “Love has love to run deep into the thicket of my
been perfected among us in this: that heart and mind, pushing out all fear
we may have boldness in the day of and darkness. Wash my human hands
judgment; because as He is, so are and spread like fire in my bones and
we in the world. There is no fear of wild vines through my thoughts. Fill
love, but perfect love casts out fear me, fuel me, and propel me forward
because fear involves torment. But he with Your perfect love. Set me free
who fears has not been made perfect from the ever-persistent fears of what
in love. We love Him because He first tomorrow brings with Your love. May
loved us.”
my life be lived full of love through
You, for You, and because of You,
This love is a lot like the game of Lord.
cops and robbers. You can run and
run, unbound, unburdened, filled with
Amen.
joy and boldness and allow Gods love
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to fill you, fuel you, and propel you
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forward, or you can let yourself to
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be handcuffed to your fear. You can