Alegria Accessories Prayer Partners

Tomorrow is Honduras Independence Day! Our artisans and their families will be enjoying a holiday and celebrating their beautiful country and their freedom.

We are praying for it to be a huge week of blessings for Alegria!

Like the sandals of the Israelites in the desert, our little air conditioner that we bought with our move to our office in Honduras has run and run and run without giving out. It is only about half the BTU strength we were told we needed for the office. And we are on a top floor with a flat roof 15º off the equator. For this little unit, we have been so grateful! But this last week, it started getting really hot in our office. Imagine working when it's nearly 100º outside and it's not a lot a lot cooler inside. And handling jewelry components and small tools with sweaty hands is just not easy. So we're in the middle of a Hot Deals for Cool Artisans Labor Day Weekend Sale in an effort to liquidate some inventory to have the funds for replacing our Honduras office air conditioner. Would you please pray that we can have an incredibly successful sale this weekend and be able to pay for the air conditioner and installation in its entirety? Thank you Joy-Creators for your constant prayers and support!

Thank you for praying with me over keeping the mission our focus and growing to be able to create more jobs.

The mission that started and motivates Alegria is jobs - so when we have an abundance of work, we are on mission and rejoicing!

As the Christian Products Expo begins today, and we've wrapped up the Faire market, Joy-Partners (retail stores that have purchased Alegria at wholesale to sell in their stores) will be putting out their new products from us and sharing our story with their customers.

Next weekend Alegria will be participating in the Mercy Marketplace trade show group during the Christian Products Expo.

Creating good jobs for women who grew up at Faith Home in Honduras. This is our mission, the reason we exist.

Tomorrow starts the largest online trade show of the year - Faire Market. Faire is where a large majority of our wholesale Joy-Partners order their jewelry for their stores. And the summer market is the biggest market as stores stock up for Christmas shopping.

I spend a lot of time in the numbers of Alegria. Profits, expenses, sales, channels, markets, and the trends I work for, pray for and look for are usually for those numbers to go up. (well, except expenses, but they seem to do that too.)

It's a day of praising and praying as we enter the second half of the year!