The Big Freeze

AMAZING! This has been the longest stretch of C-O-L-D weather we've experienced in a long, long time! Schools were closed for two days, but Happy Hands remained open. Even tho' only a few children showed up, the days were productive. Blessings come in strange packages sometimes. Even tho' it was colder than cold outside, it was warm inside with all the brain power happening at the teachers' desks! Miss Sarah, Miss Charmin, Miss Haima, and Miss Mary Ann put their brains together to make sure the new facility has all the equipment and materials anyone could imagine or dream about. When the new building opens, it is going to be AMAZING! Thanks teachers for your AMAZING work!

Welcome Miss Joyce

We are so happy to have Joyce Werner on staff now! She is gifted at encouraging! Take time to get to know her. She loves the Lord with all her heart, mind, strength, and soul. She makes you feel good to be around her.

Miss Kendra

Kendra, this one is for you! We love you and miss you already! We know you are going to be an awesome intern at KSD and at Edison. They are all going to LOVE you...but we know the rest of the story...we know that you are coming back to us! Thank you for investing your life at Happy Hands and in the children. We are all better for it! God has a mightly plan for you and we are so excited that it includes Happy Hands!

Worship

Worship is not something that happens just on Sunday mornings in church. Worship is a 24/7 practice, but a good place to start is the Sunday fellowship. Are you fellowshipping with a community of believers? Are you being fed the Word? Are you serving? I encourage you to partake of this "worship". Find a church where you can fellowship, learn, and serve!

Building Hope - A Happy Hands Blog

This blog site has been created for staff, parents, and supporters of Happy Hands. The goal is to "build hope"! That's what we are all about. For many years Al Proo, Executive Director and Founder, and I have been praying that anyone who enters the doors of Happy Hands will know "hope". We pray for hope for the children who come to us with severe language delays and hearing loss. We pray for hope for the parents who may have temporarily lost hope when given the their child's diagnosis. We pray for hope for the volunteers and donors that they will experience hope in the faces of the children they meet and the love they receive. And we pray for hope for all the staff that they will come to trust Jesus more and more each day as they see and experience the "hope" of Christ being built in the children and families we serve.

This blog site is for encouragement, edification, sharing, prayer. You are invited to share how God is working in your life; share the miracles you are experiencing; share the cute, fun, awesome, and "answered prayer" kinds of things these precious children are doing; and share hope!

Our building campaign has been titled "Building Hope" but we want this theme to continue way beyond the construction of the building. The new building is just a beginning. Our prayer is that many, many new children and families will experience hope through the mission and services of Happy Hands.