In this Advent week of Hope, we celebrate the deliverance of hope to young girls in the form of new handmade dresses.

Earlier this year, the ladies’ sewing circle at Second Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas, decided to dedicate their energies on sewing dresses for immigrant girls. The ladies sewed and packaged hundreds of dresses along with new sets of underwear and delivered them via CBF Texas to a pastor serving immigrants in Matamoros. You can read more about their project here.

And now the girls who are living temporarily in a migrant shelter in Matamoros have just received a delightfully unexpected gift. Eleuterio Gonzalez, a pastor in Matamoros who works with the Fellowship Southwest network of pastors, delivered the dresses.

It’s a beautiful representation of how God uses all of our gifts to bless one another, particularly children in a time of need.