Merry Christmas! We hope you are enjoying the Christmas season and preparing to celebrate the best gift ever-the birth of our Savior.
On Monday, November 18, OHS Atlanta hosted our inaugural Enrich gathering-an event combining the OHS Coffee, Site Visits, and the 2025 Grant Finalists announcement. We hosted 96 Partners and guests and leamed about the impact the four Grant Finalists are making.
We sent an evaluation to those who attended and received an overwhelmingly positive response about the new format. After years of on-site Site Visits, we will miss going to the Grant Finalists' facilities, but the feedback was clear that the large majority of OHS Partners prefer the convenience of a "one-stop shop" to see and hear from all Grant Finalists on one day in one location. The input from the Partners will help us fine tune Enrich to make it even better next year.
The Board will tour the Finalists' locations in January, read all Partner evaluations, consider all funds donated by Partners, and vote by secret ballot to select the 2025 Grant Recipients and award the grants at the OHS Awards Luncheon in February.
Thank you to all who carved out time to join us, and we hope those who were unable to attend this year will be able to next year. We were undoubtedly enriched and encouraged by what the Lord is doing in our great city.
We were so excited to introduce Enrich this fall, accomplishing in one day what usually requires a multi-day commitment and saving time and resources not only for our OHS Partners, but also the Grant Finalists.
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
2 Corinthians 9:10-11
The OHS founding Board selected 2 Corinthians 9:10-11 as our guiding Scripture. Eighteen years later, God placed these verses on our hearts again as we restructured and combined the OHS Coffee and Site Visits to make connecting with the Grant Finalists more accessible and less burdensome for our Partners and the ministries. We always seek to honor God first and are mindful of the needs and life demands of our current and future Partners as well as those who work daily to humbly serve and meet needs in our community.
I wholeheartedly thank the Events and Site Visit Chairs and their committees for their tireless work to create and execute this event for the very first time as well as Buckhead Church for their generous hospitality by hosting us in their beautiful facility. And thank you to our Partners for supporting this change and responding with enthusiasm to the event! Our greatest prayer is to enrich others while being enriched ourselves.
May God bless you and yours this Christmas season and beyond.
Myra McCowan
OHS Chair
Below are the Grant Finalists. Tap each logo to read about the mission and grant request.
