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Legacy of service - Anabel Reid painted her face as part of a video project for a scholarship application. Two months before her death, she visited Water4, a well-drilling ministry in Oklahoma.
Legacy of service - Anabel Reid painted her face as part of a video project for a scholarship application. Two months before her death, she visited Water4, a well-drilling ministry in Oklahoma.
MEDINA, TEXAS - A year and a half ago, Anabel Reid and fellow Abilene Christian University volunteers helped clear a pasture at Medina Children’s Home.
On a recent Saturday, supporters of Arms of Hope — the ministry that oversees the children’s home — celebrated the opening of a 250-seat chapel built on the tree-lined site where Reid donated time and sweat.
Arms of Hope dedicated a prayer room at the new chapel in memory of Reid, a 19-year-old sophomore killed last fall in a bus crash on her way to ACU’s annual Medina service project.
A slide show played at the ceremony showed Reid sporting a purple Abilene Christian shirt and holding a chainsaw — a big smile on her face.
“There were pictures that I had never seen,” said Shelly Reid, Anabel’s mother and a member of the Broadway Church of Christ in Lubbock, Texas. “That always takes me back a little bit. But I wouldn’t trade that.”
On a recent Saturday, supporters of Arms of Hope — the ministry that oversees the children’s home — celebrated the opening of a 250-seat chapel built on the tree-lined site where Reid donated time and sweat.
Arms of Hope dedicated a prayer room at the new chapel in memory of Reid, a 19-year-old sophomore killed last fall in a bus crash on her way to ACU’s annual Medina service project.
A slide show played at the ceremony showed Reid sporting a purple Abilene Christian shirt and holding a chainsaw — a big smile on her face.
“There were pictures that I had never seen,” said Shelly Reid, Anabel’s mother and a member of the Broadway Church of Christ in Lubbock, Texas. “That always takes me back a little bit. But I wouldn’t trade that.”
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