Vania and Dennis Welcome Baby!

We are so excited to welcome a beautiful baby boy into the world. Vania and Dennis are missionaries to Liberia with the organization: http://crca-liberia.blogspot.com/

We are so blessed that they staying at Naomi House while on furlough for a few weeks. We are so grateful to be able to offer them some much needed rest and relaxation- well as much as possible with a newborn...

Please check out their blog and ministry. Vania is a missionary from our area that you are going to want to keep an eye on and support either prayerfully or financially!

Tent Sale for Missions!

2nd Annual
Huge Benefit
Rummage Sale!

All Proceeds Go Toward
Team Serve Ministries of Ethiopia

Donation Accepted June 29 & 30 at the Tent
Thursday, July 1 - Saturday, July 3 8:00-5:00

This sale will be held in conjunction with a Rummage O Rama Fundraiser for the Naomi House Sponsored by Country Discount Grocery call 787.5000 for booth info

Rummage Sale Location
(NOTE: we have moved our sale)Hwy 21 3 miles west of Wautoma, Behind the Country Discount Grocery and
Naomi’s Blessings Thrift Store any questions call Misty 920.787.3925

Nice Clean Quality Sale in a Huge 40’ x 80’ Tent
Electric Stove * Baskets Galore * Lamps * Toys * Glassware * Rocker recliner * Office Supplies * Paper * Vacuum Cleaner *

Lawn Spreader
Craft Supplies * Sofa Sleeper * Lots of Nice Home Decorations *
* Garden Supplies * Electronics* Kitchen table & Chairs * Stroller
*End Tables * Bedding * Dishes * Many Books *

Full Bed Frame *Skates *
Small Kitchen Appliances * Stereos * Store Displays * Color TV’s *
* Entertainment Center * Assortment of Sporting Equipment * Skis
*Purses * Games * Ton’s of Christmas * Occasional Chair *

Fabric
*Baby Items * Car Seats * High Chair * Wooden Chairs * Picture Frames *
* 2 George Foremen Grills * Punching Bag * Knick Knacks * Night Stand *
* End Tables * Quality Name Brand Clothing -Many Old Navy, Abercrombie, AE, Gap, Lands End, Eddie Bauer, etc.
& Much Much Much More… items coming! in daily

upcoming event....

Come to the Naomi Blessings Thrift Store
Grand Opening Celebration
"Lifting families out of poverty, with your support."
Rummage O Rama
April 29-May 1
Purchase a outdoor spot on the grounds surrounding
Country Discount Grocery and Naomi's Blessings
& hold your rummage sale, plant sale, craft sale , book sale, bake sale ect.
Booth rental proceeds go to support "The Naomi House"
Contact Pat at Country Discount Grocery for booth rental information & reservations
920.787.0331 Booth fees $10 10x10, $15 10x20, $20 10x30
The weekend will also include many other activities including a brat fry, tent sale and much more to be announced.
Take advantage of the high traffic event to hold your own sale
Country Discount Grocery & Naomi's Blessings located 3 miles west of Wautoma on Hwy 21

Changing the unchangable.

Hope is possible for anyone. Change is possible for anyone. There is no one too far gone. No one with a heart so damaged that God cannot perform a miracle in it. We do believe this and have seen it happen before our eyes. Amazing

Thrift Store Open Jan 2!!

"Lifting families out of poverty, with your support."

Opens THIS Saturday!

Awesome Name Brand Clothing, Household Items, Electronics, Books, Furniture, Mattresses and so much more

January 2nd 9am - 4pm

Located 3 miles West of Wautoma on Hwy 21

next to Country Discount Grocery Store

Phone 920-295-8214

Business Hours for January

Wednesday - Friday 9am-5pm

Saturday 9am-4pm

Please join us in celebrating the Lord's provision in opening Naomi's Blessings Thrift Store

Many volunteers & supporters have come together with their gifts and talents to make this store possible and we are so very grateful. As we have stepped out in total faith with no money (yes not a dime) to open this store the Lord has provided every step of the way.

Many of you have been part of those provisions and we want to say THANK YOU!!!!

We Have Hired A Store Manager

We are pleased to announce that Mary Frederick has been hired to manage Naomi's Blessings.

Mary comes with many years of experience in the business world and in

serving our community on the Wautoma School Board.

We are very excited to have such a qualified manager with such strong ties to our community.

Thank you Mary for stepping out in faith with us and joining in this worthy ministry.

Volunteers Needed

Our store will be completely staffed by volunteers with the exception of our manager.

We need volunteers who are available occasionally, we need volunteers who will commit one day a week, we need volunteers who will commit to one day a month, basically we need any and all help.

What ever time you can fit into your schedule we would greatly appreciate.

Please call Mary or better yet stop out to see the store and let Mary know if you are interested in helping.

DONATIONS

Currently donations will be accepted at the thrift store during business hours

& at the Detjens Warehouse Corner of Hwy 21 East and 21st ave 1 mile East of Silvercryst - 920.787.3925

We will do our best to pick up items

Please call Mary Frederick for picked up 920-295-8214

Items Still Needed

2 Floor mats

4 Fatigue mats

Dorm size refrigerator

Small microwave

Apartment sized stack washer and dryer

Giant trash bags

2 Trash cans

Storage Shed

2 bags Ice Melt

Mop

Goo gone

Donation box built

4 sheets of 3/4" plywood, 8 sets of large hinges, 8 2x4

Set of 4 heavy duty casters for a moving cart & 1 2x4

Funding for the following

$100 huge light bulbs for our lighted outdoor sign

$800 total for our winter supply of propane

$400 for our security deposit

$40 In store sign holders

$100 Wall mount hanging racks

$25 for miscellaneous pricing supplies

$20 Clothing rack size hooks

Please feel free to pass this email on to your friends, family, co workers and

Be sure to come shop our store.

I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

Have a Blessed day!

Misty Detjens

Thrift Store

We are so excited to be opening a thrift store called Naomi's Blessings. This store will provide job skills to residents that might need them, give us an outlet for all the wonderful donations that we have run out of room to store, and fund the ministry. It will really be a place you can feel great shopping at. While finding great deals!
God has been providing what we need as we need it-- as usual.
So far we have been given a cash register, some shelving, a sign for the outside of the store, and the first month's rent and security deposit!

Here is a list of the other items we need to open:
Shelving: grocery type
Clothing displays
Spinner displays
Large bulletin board
Small bulletin board
4 3’-5’ floor mats or runners for winter
Computer
Printer
Copy paper
Tape dispenser & tape, stapler & staples, sharpie markers
Mop, broom, dust pan, bucket
Snow shovel
2 Step stools
4ft-6 ft ladder
Cleaning supplies
Lighted open sign
Hours sign
New skins for lighted store sign
Propane for winter $
$500 rent for first 6 months
Storage Shed for storage
Semi trailer for storage
Part time manager

An Apprenticeship in "Family 101"

I was realizing today as we hung out with the guests at Naomi House, that our ultimate goal is to provide a real-life model of healthy, loving, family relationships. We have parenting classes yes, but we also provide a glimpse into the lives of real parents with real children. The good moments and the bad. I have four little girls, so when our family comes to visit the women and their children in the home, I can't fake it. I have to put my children in time-out, and get frustrated when they are not listening, and deal with whining, and fighting over toys. But I realized that I am also able to provide an example of "normal" mothering-- though "normal" is a very relative term!! Normal moms get tired, normal moms burn dinner once in a while, normal moms have bad days. Normal moms need God's help just as much as anyone else.

It is such a simple concept, and many people grew up with this healthy model without really thinking about it. But for those who did not, that foundation was not laid and it makes it tough to deal with the everyday realities of parenting- let alone the added stress of having no money, no place to call home, and no father to help shoulder the responsibilities.

What is so cool about Naomi House, is that God has led us to be family. The women learn how to have healthy family relationships when they leave, because they learn how to have healthy family relationships each day that they stay. They learn to discipline in love, be frustrated but not flip out, be sad but not check out on reality, and most importantly how to trust God for all their needs, big and small. Because the volunteers and staff are women and mothers who do the same.