Helping the helpless

1st FashionABLE scarf!

Note from Meselu

It happened around the time of my junior year. I started looking at colleges I wanted to go to and was trying to figure out what I wanted to major in. I knew from going to Cluj, Romania in 2009 that God had called me to do something huge! He called me to take a risk, try something different that most people wouldn't be interested in doing. Around this time people started asking me what I wanted to do with my life. Well I think the question was more detailed to, "So what are you planning on majoring in?" My response was, "I don't know. But what I do know is that God's called me to do something big. He's called me to the mission field."
The reaction from most people when I say that is either "Oh that's cool." (But you can tell they don't think that, or think that a 19 year old girl know what she wants to do with her life.) The other reaction is, "That's awesome!" << And I can tell when they mean that because they further conversation about missions work, helping people, and how this all came about.

To this day I still get that question, I guess because it's a good conversation starter, rather than talking about the weather. But it never gets old to me, I love talking about what I want to do with my life and to see what God has in store for my life!

So as you can see that I have posted two pictures to the right. The first one is me wearing this awesome new scarf my mom and pops got me for my birthday. Below it you will find a note from Meselu, the woman who handmade it.

If you have ever spent about an hour or so around me, I would hope you know how passionate I am about helping this world that is broken, hungry, thirsty, etc for anything and everything. It breaks my heart to know that there are people in this world that don't have clean drinking water, children die because they lack nutrients in food they can't get because it's too expensive, and girls are sent to brothels to "work" and can't ever escape.

I know I'm still in college and young, but that hasn't stopped me before to try and do something good.  1 Timothy 4:12 says, "Don't let anyone look down upon you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity. May this be the prayer of your heart if you are young like me and have dreams. Meselu is able send her son Eyob to school because she has learned a new skill. FashionABLE creates sustainable business for women in Africa. These scarves are handmade and allow women to become a vital part to a developing economy.