I was doing some employment research and came
across this great story on the website it says “Methodist Mission Home was
founded in 1895 in the wake of a dramatic and spontaneous conversion experience
by Madam M. L. Volino who ran a brothel on San Saba Street. Inspired by a
street revivalist, Madam Volino returned to her house in the red light district
vowing to begin a new life. Through financial and emotional support of the
Methodist community and Travis Park Methodist Church, Volino converted the
brothel into a rescue home for "fallen women." By the early 1900's,
most of the women who arrived were pregnant and unwed and the Rescue Home
became known primarily as a maternity center.”
More than a
century later the Methodist Mission Home continues to serve hundreds of people
each year. Adoption services, domestic, international and older-child adoption
programs and SCHI offers community-based and residential programs for adults
who are deaf/hard of hearing or have other disabilities.
I have
lived here most of my life and have never heard of this story. To me it shows
that the Lord’s mighty hand is at work from the beginning, this city has a
heritage of God’s word being proclaimed. This should give us encouragement and
be about our Father’s business. God is
in the people business, we should be too.
How exciting it could be if we who have so much would just direct our
efforts to those who need the saving Grace of Jesus.
This reminds me of Luke 7:47HCS
Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she
loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves
little.”
Maybe we need to remember how much we have
been forgiven….