2nd Annual Awaken Golf Challenge

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Enjoy a leisurely day of golf with your friends, and do it for a cause! Become a part of the solution and unite with us to end sex trafficking! Our goal of raising $50,000 will directly support Awaken in providing housing resources to those utilizing Awaken’s services. providing a safe, clean, inviting place to live is crucial in restoring the lives of Awaken’s clients.

How it works:

  • Create a team of 1-10 players
  • Work together to raise the $2000 entry fee
  • Golf Somerset at your leisure from 8am to 5pm
  • Teams may spend the day together on the green, however only one golfer from each team may be active on the course at a time
  • Teams can alternate golfers as they wish
  • Awaken will host a dinner and presentation immediately following the event!

Entry Includes:

  • Awaken Shirt
  • Breakfast, lunch, and a sit-down dinner

To register as a golfer/team or to donate please visit: classy.org/GolfForAwaken

Awaken Prayer Night – May 1

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When: May 1, 6-8pm
Where: Hope City Church
6135 Lakeside Dr, Unit 137, Reno, Nevada 89511

Awaken Prayer Nights are to bring people together to corporately pray for women and children being commercially sexually exploited. Awaken invite’s you to join us to pray for this cause. We anxiously await seeing God set these women and children free and northern Nevada restored back to the Lord! Please join us for the special evening to serve those held in sexual slavery by praying for them!

RSVP: Let us know you’re coming by joining our Facebook Event!

New Drop-In Center!

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Happy New Year from Awaken

Awaken has had an incredible year! On top of the $3,500 in presents that went to 20 women and 10 children for Christmas we are also moved into the Awaken Drop-in Center! Reno Christian Fellowship and its church family made a $50,000 contribution as part of its two-year JUMP initiative to allow us the startup funds to open the Drop-in Center. We are in a soft opening right now, but hope to soon be fully staffed and have our hours of operations up and running!

The statistics are scary for Reno in regard to the young women and youth in this community involved in prostitution and human trafficking. For the majority that want to escape, it’s a challenging path. We are opening the drop-in center in downtown Reno because we believe being downtown, where the heart of the exploitation takes place, will allow us to have the greatest impact. The center will be a place where girls can escape what is happening to them, become a part of a healthy community that loves them well.

Last night we hosted our first exercise class and tonight we will ring in the new year with dinner and games!

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Merry Christmas from everyone at Awaken!

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Awaken has had an incredible year and a wonderful Christmas season with our staff and the women and children we serve. This year our team of mentors and staff opened up their homes to the girls and together we made gingerbread houses, decorated cookies, opened presents and shared meals. We have some of the most generous people investing in these girls and their families. This year churches and community members donated over $3,500 in presents that went to 20 women and 10 children!

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All of the girls we serve were so blessed by your kindness! Jen and I received a text last night saying, “I’m overwhelmed by the generosity tonight. I feel like I was on the Oprah Christmas Special!”

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We wish we could show you all of their beautiful faces. The girls really wanted to show you how much fun we had at this year’s Christmas events!