Baptist Home for Girls Strut Style on Runway
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Updated: 3:06 PM Oct 4, 2009
Baptist Home for Girls Strut Style on Runway
Ardmore, OK- Lights, camera, action! Girls from the Madill Campus Baptist Home for Girls walked the runway this afternoon to express their unique style to raise money for the homes largest fundraiser of the year.
Posted: 2:55 PM Oct 4, 2009
Reporter: Katrina Gutierrez
Email Address: katrina.gutierrez@kxii.com
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Ardmore, OK- Lights, camera, action! Girls from the Madill Campus Baptist Home for Girls walked the runway this afternoon to express their unique style to raise money for the homes largest fundraiser of the year.

"We enjoy the style show so much and it pays for a lot of the activities for the girls throughout the year,” said Art Brown, Administrator for the Madill campus Baptist Home for Girls.

Community members from all over Oklahoma came out to the Ardmore Convention Center to watch the young ladies strut their stuff. One volunteer read the young ladies hopes and dreams as they walked the runway. This was usually followed by laughter, smiles and even tears.

"A child is raised by a community,” said Brown, “and the community of Madill and the community here at Ardmore are very much apart of helping us raise these young ladies and providing for them."

For Jana Martin, those 32 girls were her....at age 15.

“When I came here and it was a time that I needed it most in my life and it impacted me,” said Martin, “it taught me things I needed to know not just to instill confidence in me and to build my relationship with God but it gave me the tools I needed to be a better mom and wife."

Now martin has a family of her own. She has three kids and a loving husband. Currently she's thinking about pursuing a degree in nursing.

"It's great, it's great and I think life would not have turned out so well if I didn't have that experience there at the home,” said Martin.

Martin said she keeps her memories from the home, close to heart.

"It's just a place of safety and security and they love you and they don't judge you they take you where you're at and they accept you right then and there and i love it there I have great memories."


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