Usually church is a place where you go wearing your "Sunday Best" not a place you go carrying your underwear. So, why would The Next Level Church partner with Free The Girls to host Denver's Biggest Bra Drive? Church is no place to talk about "unmentionables," right?
Wrong!
When you think about it, the church is the perfect and most appropriate place to have a bra drive when you understand:
- Pound for pound bras sell for 5 times the cost of other used clothing items in Africa.
- Bras are the number one demanded used clothing item in Africa. When large containers of used clothes arrive in Africa bras are always the first items taken. Followed second by shoes!
- A women who wear a bra in Africa is seen as having disposable income, a job and being more self reliant. This makes her less of a target for adbuse and mistreatment. Simply put, an African women who wears a bras is less liekly to be raped!
This bra drive is about mercy, justice and love. All things the church should be about! With this in mind how could the church not host bras drives all over the US?
“Truly I tell you, whatever you
did for one of the least of these
brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."
-Jesus
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