August 08, 2012
Amani Chattanooga: Coming Soon!
New opportunities for Amani in the US!
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Amani is moving its warehouse operations from
Washington, DC to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Amani has always been a place where peace transcends. Thousands of people all over the world have been impacted through the work of peace and reconciliation. Amani started 16 years ago in Kenya as a holistic job skills training and reconciliation ministry for refugee women. Women came from homelands in conflict and found love and forgiveness in a foreign land, sometimes among their enemies. Early on in the life of Amani we realized that Christ’s transcendent peace needed to be extended beyond just refugee women--it needed to be available to everyone. Amani has grown over the years with centers in Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Liberia, and Washington, DC. And now, it is finding a new home in Chattanooga!
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Many of you have walked with us in the past as we established new Amani centers, and we need you this time too. We ask for your prayers as we:- Restructure operations
- Continue to renovate the building
- Move inventory from DC to Chattanooga
- Train new staff
- Recruit volunteers
- Get to know our neighbors
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Executive Director Becky Chinchen, on her hopes for the new center: “The Chattanooga location will be more than a warehouse. It will be the vehicle for people coming together, where the real work will be that of peace and reconciliation. I have learned from the African Amani centers that when people participate in a project focused on God's peace and forgiveness, the walls of economic, racial, and cultural differences soon come down. Amani gives people a reason to belong and a safe place to heal. We trust that this will be true for Amani Chattanooga as well.” We are again giving God thanks for another Amani center grounded in God’s peace. It’s exciting to imagine how the Chattanooga center will take shape. Our hope is that it will become a place where customers, employees, neighbors, and volunteers will find value, worth, forgiveness, and healing because of Christ’s peace, peace from above.