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OPPORTUNITY
TO Serve

Heritage House

LUBBOCK Supporting mothers & their children, during & after
pregnancy, by providing transitional housing, essential
necessities & a reliable support system

n 2015, Jenny Reeger was the
Director of Communications at a
Ilocal pregnancy medical clinic in
Lubbock. She felt like she was right
where God wanted her to be. She
thoroughly enjoyed her work but
couldn’t help but notice a common
need among their pregnant and
post-partum clients. It was a need for
housing. Later that year, Jenny gave
birth to her first son, Jude, and felt
a prompting from the Lord to stay
home with him. She would go on to
spend the next five and a half years
investing in real estate, operating two
Airbnb’s, doing graphic design work
and operating a small design & crafts
shop. But the need for housing never
left her mind. began to plan and pray over

Fast forward to 2021—the vote for the direction of what would
life passed in Lubbock, and Jenny eventually become the Heritage
felt another prompting from the House Maternity Home. Jenny
Lord—to leave her design business chose the name from Psalm 127:3.
behind and allow Him to guide her “Behold, children are a heritage
to provide this need for housing from the Lord, the fruit of the
for single, pregnant women. It felt womb a reward.”
personal, as if God had intentionally The Reegers looked for properties
put it on her heart and mind to begin for several months and eventually
a ministry. She began to research found one that met their needs
other maternity homes, and while for the maternity home. But ways that that is exactly what He was
they are scarce in our part of West there was a catch—it was the former saying.
Texas, she interviewed, visited abortion clinic. Was God really
and researched as many maternity suggesting they turn a former Were there doubts of how a project
homes as she could find. She and abortion clinic into a maternity of this scale would come together?
her husband, Luke, immediately home? He made it clear in various Absolutely.

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