Dust Off Your Old Gown
August 6, 2009 – 9:12 amLadies, here’s a great opportunity for you to donate your old wedding dress to a great cause!
In Muslim Turkey, converts to Christianity are often fired from their jobs when employers learn of their faith. Unemployment is high and jobs are very hard to find. Fortunately, a ministry in the US has found a way to help needy Turkish believers without making them dependent on continuing assistance.
Brides in Turkey typically rent their wedding apparel, and this organization provides Turkish Christians with a stock of wedding gowns they can rent out from their homes or local shops. These are given to them free of charge. The ministry relies on donated dresses, and most are received from Christian women who treasure the opportunity to share their own used gowns.
If you have a wedding dress you’d like to give for this cause, please make sure it’s clean and in excellent condition, and send it to the address below. Though not required, it will also help if you provide a US$10 donation for the average cost of shipping a gown overseas. Your gift of a dress or funds is tax-deductible.
Please send dresses to Turkish World Outreach, 508 Fruitvale Court, Grand Junction, CO 81504 USA, or contact Steve Hagerman.
This one would go for a pretty penny!
