The Texas Panhandle 100 Women Who Care hosted our first event,” Let’s Fiesta,” on June 25, 2024. Excitement was brewing leading up to the event for the inaugural meeting and what a turn out it was! Thank you to our Sponsors: David and Cindy Whitaker, Buffalo Grass Music Hall, Brickstreet 200 and Down the Bumpy Road Garden Greenhouse. Special thanks to Melanie Britten Photography for capturing the evening with photos.
Over 100 Women from the Texas Panhandle attended the meeting. The meeting began with a social hour on Main Street, moved inside Buffalo Grass Music Hall to hear presentations on three non-profit organizations, and voted for the organization of their choice. Isaiah 58:10 was selected to receive the first donation from The Texas Panhandle 100 + Women Who Care. Through the collective giving of over 120 women, Isiah 58:10 will receive $14,200.
Ten years ago, Cary and Rita Sills established Isaiah 58:10, a non-profit organization in Jocotenango, Guatemala. They stated: “It has been a tremendous 10 years, and we are so grateful for every day we have here in Guatemala. We are still working with the same medical team, Health Talents International. For the desperately needy, we are facilitating surgeries one week per month, the other 3 weeks we are building homes and feeding around 300 children a week.”
Through Health Talents International, Doyle and Brenda Robinson of Panhandle, Texas have been on more than 18 mission trips working at the hospital in Guatemala that performs surgeries for the extremely impoverished indigenous people. The Robinsons also assist in building homes and providing meals to the children.
Isaiah 58:10’s mission is to help meet the basic needs and improve the quality of life for the desperately poor in Guatemala by feeding the children, providing homes, and ministering to medical needs, while sharing the gospel and love of Jesus Christ.
Using land that the family provides, the homes are built at the cost of $2500. This includes the home, the kitchen with stove, two beds, a water filter and an audio Bible in their native language of Kaqchikel.
The Children’s Feeding Center provides a hot meal for 250 to 300 children from the community on Wednesdays and Fridays. The meal may be just rice and beans, but if the donations allow, an egg or sausage is added. A piece of chicken is a real treat.
Isaiah 58:10 “If you open your heart to the hungry, and provide abundantly for those that are afflicted, your light will shine in the darkness, and your gloom will be like the noonday sun.”
Through 100 Women Who Care, we, as women in the Panhandle, are demonstrating the profound impact that collective giving can have on our community, embodying the spirit of generosity and camaraderie. As we come together, our actions speak volumes—proving that indeed, when women unite, they are stronger together.
