"Glad I said "Yes'!"
It was a very humbling moment for Anne Kaufman Weaver. At a Bridge of Hope BuxMont (Pa.) fundraiser, this former founding board chair paused to look around the beautifully decorated room. It was filled with mentors, graduates, staff, board members and donors laughing, talking and bidding on auction items. All to benefit this ministry that Anne helped to start - a ministry that served 13 women and their 43 children in the previous year!
"A friend and I gathered people together for our initial Bridge of Hope information meeting; and I was later asked to facilitate as the first board chair," she says. "My friend encouraged me to do it; he expressed the conviction that God would provide - one step at a time, one person's gift at a time.
"Even my kids helped by stuffing and licking envelopes. They invited their friends' moms to our fundraising tea. And they got very good at silent auction bidding, too!" says Anne, a social worker by training and now a personal coach, who was a stay-at-home mom when she volunteered as the board chair of Bridge of Hope BuxMont. "It's important that we teach the next generation to be compassionate and generous."
Looking back, Anne says, "I'm so glad I said ‘Yes'! It was a wonderful way to watch - and participate in - what God was up to. I comprehend the creativity of God more now - how God connects people, resources, talents and needs in divine interventions.
"It has been so much fun to be part of all this - an amazing spiritual journey!"
