MARTINSBURG- - The power of a unified front was on full display during the fourth annual gala for Mary’s Refuge.

About 250 area church members, clergy and the general public gathered Nov. 6 at the Hilton Garden Inn Martinsburg to celebrate and expand upon the growth of the maternity home, whose mission is to provide a safe and stable environment for young mothers and mothers-to-be. Seated among them in the ballroom were 10 of the 11 refuge residents and two of the youngest children. One mother was home resting after having given birth to twins on Nov. 3; another woman living there is due to deliver her child on Dec 1.

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