Codie Brinlee’s says she’s been called by God to travel to Moldova to help prevent human trafficking by sharing His word. The small country in between Ukrane and Romania is being helped through pumpkins sales of a local store and through New Beginning Fellowship where she is currently the youth leader.
Salvage Junky of Howe is donating a portion of the sales of all of the pumpkins located on the premises. Owner Debbie Wallis says that the pumpkins are grown on a Navaho Indian Reservation in New Mexico.
“It’s a job creator for them and a percentage of the sales goes to them.” says Wallis. “The rest of it goes to Codie and the rest is cost-covering. It’s a act of love from our family to her. Everybody in our family is working it for her.”
Brinlee says that she’ll leave in the fall of 2016 and stay there for a year and come back for a few months. If there are more funds available for her to return, she wants to do that.
“When I started seeking His will for my life, He just put this in front of me and I just started praying for people that are affected by human trafficking and interceding for them.” said Brinlee.
The North Texas Assembly of God is also supporting her cause as she will be traveling to other churches and talking about her mission in hopes that each church will support her in her cause.
Brinlee grew up in Howe and attended Howe schools from kindergarten through her graduating HHS class of 2007. She is the daughter of Ricky and Sherry Brinlee, who are also Howe graduates. After high school Codie Brinlee moved to Huntsville and Conroe, Texas to attend college and then returned to Howe. After completing nursing school, she’s now employed as such.
Brinlee says that they are unable to share the Gospel on college campuses, but will be reaching out to college-aged students through fellowship and offering various classes at a local coffee shop.
If you feel led to donate, please make checks payable to mail to: New Beginning Fellowship, Note: Codie Brinlee, P.O. Box 295, Howe, Texas, 75459. For online donations, go to www.nbfhowe.com Note: Codie Missions.
