1st Annual Purses For Pride Benefit Ride

Today we had the 1st Annual Purses For Pride Benefit Ride in Douglasville, GA.
My friend Annie, her husband Dave and their daughter Alexa helped Laurie put together what we hope becomes an annual event here in Georgia to help support the Women's Program.
As part of the entry fee everyone came with fabric donations for the sewing program. I love great ideas!
About thirty horse trailers pulled up with so many beautiful horses all going out to ride to support the ladies in Haiti. I wondered what on earth the ladies in Haiti would think about something like this.
Someone said to me, "I thought you would bringing some of the ladies with you so we could meet them."
Little did they know most of the ladies in our program will never have the chance to leave Haiti, even if they wanted to.

I was amazed at how much work it was to take your horse out for the day. I had no idea people could teach a horse "tricks". These guys can smile, shake and bow - who knew!
As everyone stated to unload their horses, Dan said, hey, something is wrong with these horses! They are so fat and you can't see their rib cages sticking out. It is true, we are used to seeing a much different looking breed of horse.
I have to say, "Sir Henry" was the favorite for me. He was huge! The owner said, he is a gentle giant.

Everyone got ready and went riding for a few hours in one of Georgia's really beautiful parks. Another thing we don't have in Haiti that I really miss. It was the perfect afternoon to be outside. Not to hot, no rain and a wonderful breeze.
Around lunch time everyone took a break from riding, ate a really yummy Southern style BBQ lunch, listened to some fun music while we had one really big purse party. There was more riding and a raffle of horse stuff for all the riders later in the afternoon.


Laurie had found this scripture while she was doing her devotions and felt like the Lord had given it to her for this event. She posted it on her trailer as a reminder to everyone as to why they had come to this event...
Luke 12:33
Sell what you have and give the money to the poor.
Make yourselves purses that never wear out. Make sure your treasure is safe in heaven, where thieves cannot steal it and moths cannot destroy it.
This was the first of four different benefits we will be doing while we are out this summer in the States.
So far our summer is off to a great start!