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OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE





                                                                The plan is to offer:

                                                                • Comfortable, transitional housing

                                                                • A non-judgmental, welcoming environment

                                                                • Food, vitamins, toiletries & essential necessities
                                                                • Maternity and baby items

                                                                • Resources for continuing education

                                                                • Resources for obtaining employment

                                                                • Financial health & budgeting assistance
                                                                • Transportation assistance

                                                                • Local medical and counseling resources

                                      But when Jenny’s          • Spiritual opportunities & resources
                                      passion for helping      We recognize that motherhood is a journey. It can feel
                                      others and listening to   overwhelming navigating it alone. All women need a
                                      God was greater than the   healthy, reliable support system during the early stages
                                      uncertainty and the fear,   of motherhood, but many women don’t have one. This is
                                      she was able to persevere   where we come in. No one is meant to walk through this
                                      and listen to His voice   alone. Together, we will see it through.
                                      alone. She has relied
                                      on God for the answers   If you have had children or have been close to others with
                                      throughout the entire    children, you know the obstacles that come with raising
                                      process, and He made     kids and raising them well. We not only want to provide
                                      a way. He gave her the   necessities for women in need, but to walk alongside
                                      people who truly had the   them in life, empowering them to be confident in
                                      desire and the resources   motherhood and offer tools that could help them thrive in
         to help her put the pieces together. Between trusting   their next chapter of life. Heritage House is a place where
         in God to lead her and completely relying on Him to   life is lived and allows the opportunity for women & their
         provide the outcomes, she was able to have complete   babies to thrive.
         peace in the unknown.
                                                               For more information, visit our website at
         Through generous donors who “caught” the vision, the   heritagelubbock.org or Heritage House on Facebook.
         Reegers were able to purchase the property in December
         2021 and form the entity now known as Heritage        Heritage House plans to open in the beginning of 2024. If
         House. Through various tours and visits from interested   you are interested in volunteering or scheduling a tour,
         supporters, the property began to “feel” different, like   please email: info@heritagelubbock.org
         light and peace were flooding every corner.
                                                               Heritage House is currently raising funds for their
         Architecture plans and contractor bids came together   building project and in need of up to $800,000. If you are
         in early 2022. City approvals were received, and      interested in providing a contribution specifically for their
         construction began in September. As the end of        building project, please contact Jenny Reeger at: info@
         construction nears in the fall of 2023, the Reegers and
         their supporters are looking forward to the future.   heritagelubbock.org







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