Lara Davis is a missionary—although
not in the traditional sense. She doesn’t
travel the world to build houses or
consult with Bible translators in the field.
Instead, Lara runs a women’s clothing and
accessories store called One Faith Boutique
in downtown Yukon, Oklahoma. And she’s
spreading the good news
of God’s love for the world
by contributing a portion of
each sale from her store to
American Bible Society.

“I want everyone
to have a Bible in their
hands and to know more
than anything that a relationship with Jesus
changes your life now and for eternity,”
Lara says.

One of Lara’s motivations for sharing
God’s Word is her daughter, Faith. “Faith has
asked me many times, ‘What about those
people who don’t have Bibles?’”

That question was reverberating in Lara’s mind when
God told her to launch a business to give women a place to
buy affordable, fashionable clothes—all while contributing to
something bigger than themselves.

“When God laid it on my heart that we were supposed
to start this business, I felt him telling me that it wasn’t about
clothes or style,” Lara explains. “It was to be a platform for
spreading his Word.”

Taking this call seriously, Lara spent a lot of time
researching to find an organization that shared her heart.
“Everything led me back to American Bible Society,” Lara
says. “They have the same drive and passion that I do, and that’s
where I want my money and my customers’ money to go.”
While donating a portion of every sale to American
Bible Society was a no-brainer for Lara, some of her advisors
encouraged her to keep 100 percent of her profits until the
business was more firmly established.

But Lara has always been adamant that every dollar that
comes in is God’s.

“Giving is the purpose of this business,” Lara says. “I trust
that God will provide.”

And God has certainly provided.

Between 2014 and 2017, One Faith Boutique grew from a
one-woman operation in a spare bedroom of Lara’s home to a
40-plus-employee business with thousands of items bursting
from a warehouse in historic Yukon.

“To do what God’s done with this business is beyond me,”
says Lara. “There’s no way I could ever take
any credit for this business whatsoever,
because it’s so obvious that it’s all him.”
Through her partnership with
American Bible Society, Lara is making
an eternal difference by getting Bibles into
people’s hands across the world.

As Lara says, “You can tell someone
about God or quote them a verse from the Bible, but when
you put a Bible in their hands and they read not just a verse
but a whole chapter for themselves? That’s life-changing.”

You can use your time and treasure to share God’s Word, just
like Lara! Visit
ABSRecord.com/Bibles