Financial donations can be made through our website or deposited directly at First Financial Bank. We also have an Amazon Wishlist and Walmart wish list at the following links:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/TW80KQY5O29Z?ref_=wl_share
https://www.walmart.com/lists/shared/WL/04470798-338c-4d40-b91b-f212bc7e316a
Hagar's Hope is not named after Sammy Hagar as I am often asked. The name come
s from the woman, Hagar, whose story is documented in Genesis, the first book of the Bible. Hagar was a slave woman in the household of Abram and Sarai (later known as Abraham and Sarah). When Sarai gave up on her dream to be a mother, she gave her slave to Abram as a concubine so that she might bear children for him. When Hagar became pregnant, she got a little full of herself and rubbed it in Sarai's face. Sarai burned with jealousy and anger and began abusing Hagar. When Hagar could take no more, she fled into the desert, alone and with nowhere to go. On her journey, the Angel of the Lord appeared to her and asked, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, where have you come from and where are you going?" After explaining herself, the Angel of the Lord instructed Hagar to return to her mistress, but he did not send her away empty. He sent her with a promise of a future for her and her son. As an expression of the hope she had been give, Hagar assigns God a name. She is, in fact, the first person in the Bible to assign God a name-- what an honor to bestow on a slave woman. Hagar spoke the name El Roi, the God who sees. God saw Hagar in her affliction and he met her with hope. There are so many beautiful lessons in the story of Hagar. The lesson that lead me to the name for this organization, though, is the importance of being seen and given hope. The board of Hagar's Hope and our partners/supporters at Hope Initiative of Henry County, the Henry County Health Department, and within local government see the women of Henry County who suffer and struggle to grasp hope.
