BfFH: Media Coverage

The word is getting out every which way - in the newspaper, on the internet, through the blogosphere, and now on television.

A late night anchoring KMID-TV's news desk notwithstanding, Mel Hudman was here bright and early, doing his part to raise awareness and funds for a worthy cause. Mr. Hudman (shown with this year's blogathon organizer, Jimmy Patterson), did his part on the microphone, then shot video of the event for a television news report.

Thanks, Mel!

The 2008 edition of Blogging for Fair Havens is now under way in the parking lot of the Midland H.E.B. I've just wrapped-up an hour of blogging at ArchaeoTexture, and I am now in the midst of an hour of blogging at West Texas Missioner.

Blogging for Fair Havens takes place over 24 hours, from 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 26th, thru 7:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 27th in the parking lot of Midland H.E.B. near the intersection of Wadley and N. Midkiff.

Fair Havens opened its doors as a transitional housing program in Midland a little over 10 years ago. In October of 1997, executive director DiAnn Koehl set up her office in a ranch style house on Andrews Highway. She began developing the program, furnishing that 4-bedroom house while continuing to raise funds needed to support the ministry.

This faith-based organization gives women in a broken relationship a place to call home for a couple of years while they find their way again. It gives them and it gives their children a security they may have never had. And it gives the women who are taken in an opportunity to achieve a higher education so that when they do complete the program, they can go out on their own and be the success many of them know they can be.

A good cause, providing for a genuine need in our community ... and it shouldn't be any surprise that a wide variety of West Texas' blogging community wants to do their part to help .....

We hope you will, too ... won't you join our team?

You can go to the Blogging for Fair Havens link for a bloggers schedule, as well as a preview of everything else going on during this very-special 24 hours.