AUGUST 2020
WEATHER
04 T U E S D AY
TODAY
98/75
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
99/77
99/77
LEGEND PLUMBING & ROOTER Lic # ML-16126 830 • 303 •3335 B
Volume 55 • Number 146
By o you ht T g u ro
830 • 379 • 2234
Fundraiser helps to support local children’s shelter
The Voice of Seguin Today
Birthday celebration raises awareness, funds for TruLight Youth Village By Darren Dunn
in the midst of their crisis. The main point of our mission is that we are putting James 1:27, from the Bible, into action, which calls us to care for the orphans and the widows. So we are really working to make sure these kids, who are technically orphans. They are taken from their parents and into the ward of the state. We have been doing this over five years now. It’s huge. It’s a huge crisis. It’s a huge burden, but we do it to the best of our ability,” said Ajasin.
(Seguin) -- What do you give someone for their 44th birthday? Well, if person has dedicated her life to helping kids in crisis, you give her exactly what she’s asking for -- and that’s more money that can be used to help children right here in Seguin and Guadalupe County. Sondra Ajasin, heads up TruLight Ministries, which operates the only emergency children’s shelter in Guadalupe County. Ajasin will celebrate her 44th birthday on Wednesday, and she’s not asking for anything for herself. That just isn’t her way. Instead, she’s asking that people make donations to help support the important work being done at the TruLight Youth Village in the Seguin area. “At TruLight 127 Ministries, we work with kids in foster care. Kids who have been abused and neglected. Our whole goal is to provide them with love and safety and some security
If you’re not up on your Bible verses, here’s James 1:27, which Ajasin says sits at the heart of what they do. “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
Here are the new homes being added to the TruLight Youth Village in the Seguin area. The homes will provide 17 new beds for kids in Guadalupe County.
Keith Kruse 979-551-0106
For years, local kids removed from their homes had been foced to leave Guadalupe County for short term and long term services while they are in the Child Protective Services system. Ajasin says the Village has provided a new place for those kids to call home. See TRULIGHT, page 2