Reclaimed's 2018 Year in Review

It’s December, which means we’re bringing another fantastic year of ministry to a close! With these past twelve months came tons of amazing milestones. And some of our favorite ones are listed below!

IJM’s Liberate Prayer Gathering

When International Justice Mission (IJM) flew in its employees from all over the world to Dallas for their annual prayer gathering, Liberate, Reclaimed and Watermark (in addition to other churches and ministries) stepped up by sending volunteers to love and serve IJM’s faithful employees.

Sermons at Watermark

While he was in town for Liberate, IJM’s founder Gary Haugen spoke at Watermark’s Sunday services and The Porch! Click the links below to watch both sermons and be encouraged by the truth he shared.

We Are God's Plan A

Dignity of Responsibility 

New Roots Study Books AND One-Day Study

This year, we updated our curriculum with a new design and revised content. The new book debuted shortly before we held our first one-day study, which featured two panels, a prayer tour, and more! Our next one-day study is on Jan. 26, 2019, so register now if you haven't gone through the Roots study yet!

Watermark Apartment at Restored Hope Ministries

One of the ministries we partner with purchased an apartment complex where women with children could live while participating in their recovery program, and graduates of the safe house also can live there. Watermark specifically sponsored one of the apartments, and a Restored Hope graduate is currently living there! We also did another work day at the apartments—painting, planting, and cleaning to serve the current and future residents!

Motel Outreach Successes and Expansions

This year, hotel/motel outreach volunteers received tips about several missing girls. They also expanded their routes to include other places where missing and prostituted women might be found such as bus stops.

Reclaimed T-Shirts!

At long last, our volunteers have official Reclaimed shirts! If you’re a volunteer and missed the chance to pick your shirt up at our December volunteer meeting, email us at Reclaimed@watermark.org to get yours.

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North Texas Giving Day 2016

This Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, is North Texas Giving Day! For seven years, the Communities Foundation of Texas hosts an online day of fundraising for various North Texas nonprofits. Last year alone, $33 million was raised through more than 118,000 gifts benefitting 2,020 nonprofits. Gifts of at least $25 are also eligible to receive bonus funds. This year, several of the ministries Reclaimed partners with are participating in North Texas Giving Day. If you're interested in impacting the fight against trafficking this North Texas Giving Day, read on to learn more about these life-changing organizations that are participating and how you can support them.

New Friends New Life

Website: http://www.newfriendsnewlife.org

Mission: New Friends New Life restores and empowers formerly trafficked girls and sexually exploited women and their children.

Our Partnership: For the last few years Reclaimed has been excited to partner with New Friends New Life in their mission to empower women leaving the sex industry. They weekly host recovery classes and Reclaimed has invested in this time of recovery through assisting with childcare activities as well as providing dinner and hosting the women during the dinners beforehand. Reclaimed members serve with New Friends New Life regularly, but even if you don't volunteer with us, you can join us twice a year when we invite the entire church to serve dinner with us and host the women well.

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Redeemed Ministries

Website: http://redeemedministries.com

Mission: The mission of Redeemed Ministries is to provide survivor care for women victims of sex trafficking that enables them to lead restored, healthy and productive lives; to increase awareness in our communities of the issues and atrocities of human trafficking; and to advocate for victims of trafficking. We accomplish this in partnerships with churches, law enforcement, and social service organizations.

Our Partnership: We met Dallas' leadership for Redeemed about two years ago and have been excited to work together on unique projects since then. Redeemed has helped us in educating our volunteers through their available podcasts, coming to speak at events, and keeping us in the know with what they're learning as they grow their Dallas operations. We've also had the chance to work with Redeemed in caring for women leaving trafficking that are in crisis, needing the church to step in and host them until they can safely leave their situation and be set up for long term success. As Redeemed continues to bring some of they lessons they learned in their Houston hub up to Dallas, we're excited to grow and learn with them!

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Traffick911

Website: http://www.traffick911.com

Mission: Traffick911's mission is to free youth from sex trafficking through a three-prong strategy of prevention, identification and empowerment. We serve youth ages 12 to 17 that have been victimized by sex traffickers and work to equip youth and adults to not become sex buyers.

Our Partnership: Years before Reclaimed even existed Watermark worked with Traffick911 to bring awareness and prevention education to Dallas prior to Superbowl XLV which was the first to be hosted in the DFW area. Now, Reclaimed is excited to have volunteers serving with Traffick911 regularly and consistently as they go into juvenile detention centers and present on the dangers of trafficking and help identify children that have been involved. We look forward to continuing to partner with them in the fight against Trafficking.

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Of course, there are many other worthy ministries and nonprofits raising funds on North Texas Giving Day. Watermark also has a very thoughtfully written blog about how to give wisely on North Texas Giving Day and every other day for that matter. For a full list of nonprofits and to see real-time results on Sept. 22, visit the Leaderboards. To learn more about North Texas giving Day, visit their website.