Impact Oklahoma

In your prayer time, please pray for Cross & Crown's grant proposal with a new organization called Impact Oklahoma. We sent in our application for this organization's very first $100,000 grant award. Impact Oklahoma is made up of 100 women in Central Oklahoma who each gave $1,000 with the idea that their gift, collectively, will help a non-profit organization have a real and lasting impact on our community. What a great idea! Next year, they hope 500 women will be part of this organization ... we do too, because then they'll award FIVE grants!

Our proposal is to fund the renovation of this apartment building. The mission already purchased the building with dreams of turning it into transitional housing for individuals (and their families) who have successfully completed recovery for an addiction. Through our work at the mission, we've found again, and again, a hole in the system where someone who gets clean doesn't get any more help or encouragement after they complete a program. Without a good support system (or a nice and safe place to live), the pull is too great to return to their former lifestyles.

Undoubtedly, there are many worthy and wonderful grant proposals, and Impact Oklahoma will have a difficult time choosing. What a great thing - that so many people in our community are working hard to make a positive difference.