3 Days

Good Sunday morning Joy-Creators and prayer partners! Whether you are reading our prayer partner blog for the very first time (welcome!), or you have been praying weekly with us since it started (thank you!), I am so grateful you are taking this time to lift up Alegria and our work in Honduras to the One who holds us in His hands and heard the cries of his daughters, and is answering.

As we head into Holy Week with the celebration of Palm Sunday today, I was doing my usual thing near the end of the month and the quarter: checking our goals against our analytics. This year didn't start off great, we were down in our sales over the same period last year. This isn't surprising considering the news about our economy and consumer confidence. But God...

Why do I talk endlessly about sales here? Well, the reality: sales = jobs. And there is a waiting list in Honduras of women who really need these jobs. Young women who without a job at Alegria might have to work in an unsafe environment or for less than a living wage, or worse, beg on the streets, or something more unthinkable. These jobs are changing lives! So yes, I am constantly looking at our sales numbers. When they begin to trend up consistently and our demand increases, we can add another job. And when we trend down, I fear a layoff. It breaks me to think about that and I fight for it every day.

This morning, after another wonderful day of sharing Alegria with a women's conference, and a small group of women doing some spectacular shopping, we are now up enough in March to overcome the deficit of January and February! But God!!  We are getting traction online with some major retailers in dropshipping. One of our best stores is about to move to a bigger location and carry more Alegria. God is moving! He hears the cries of His daughters.

This morning, the number of days left in the month and quarter was not lost on me. Three days.  A lot can happen in 3 days.  Jesus triumphantly entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, but three days later, the plot to end His life was brewing...Thursday, He celebrated the Passover with His disciples, and then within 24 hours was lying dead in a grave. But on the third day...an empty tomb and our salvation complete! Death defeated! What a week we get to remember and celebrate this week!

In Honduras, Holy Week is celebrated like Christmas! The kids are out of school. Thursday, Friday and Saturday are part of the official holiday with businesses closed. Alegria is closed this week in Honduras and everyone will be enjoying time with family and kiddos. Pray for rest for our artisans, and refreshment.

And the three days here? I'm praying for the end of our Charmed March campaign to bring in online sales to put us back on track with goals and not just even with last year. I'm praying for new subscribers to our Joy Box tonight when I reveal the April Joy Box online. And I'm praying our Live tonight will also produce great sales as I run through the Spring pieces that are almost sold out.

Thank you for praying for our last 3 days of March, and of quarter 1 of 2026. Let's pray that many women step in and join the story in these last 3 days. The story of us, using the strength of our shopping for accessories and gifts to create safe, living wage jobs for women in Honduras, interrupting poverty, the orphan crisis and trafficking. Three days...what can God do? Everything!