The "Why" of a Top Buttons Manager

What is your “Why?” Why do you do the things you do in life? What is your motivation, or the driving force that influences you in your daily attitude and work. Let me introduce myself, my name is Angel Long, I’m the current boutique manager for Top Buttons in Winter Haven.  I’m also a wife, mom of three, grandma to four, and a registered nurse of 26 years.  I can go on to tell you more, but that is not important.  What is important is what is my “why” in this season God has brought me.  I have been a customer at Top Buttons for three years.  I have laughed, stayed for many talks, prayed with, and shed tears in our stores as a customer.  I was praying where God would lead me in work, and in January 2021, this position came open. I showed it to my husband and he said “that is it”.  Top Buttons is more than a designer/upscale boutique, to find that “amazing deal”. It is a refuge, an uplifting place of spiritual renewal for many who enter. It is a place where joys are shared, your walls can come down, your deepest needs are spoken, and a place where sisters can rejoice and pray over you.  I’ve been that customer. Top Buttons has ministered to many, beyond whom we partner with, to the lady out shopping. 

Angel Long & Kelly Hill, TB Winter Haven Team

Now, God has placed me on the other side. To where I can greet and share in life with all who enter her doors. When we step out in faith to where He leads, He will guide and bless!  Sometimes the blessings are during the hard times, but HE IS FAITHFUL. We may not understand why HE has placed us in situations, but when HE carries us through, we can see how HIS arms and hands were carrying us along the journey. Top Buttons offers this. It allows that “safe place” where you can be surrounded by sisters in Christ, to help uplift, carry, and pray for needs. To see girls and women that are in need come in and be able to be there for them is beyond everything. It’s a gracious God that allows us to be HIS hands and feet to them. To clothe them physically and spiritually. To see smiles emerge, joy shine through, and confidence restored! To hear them say, I’m trusting in where HE is leading and to see how God is faithful.  

“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for HE who promised IS faithful.” Hebrews 10:23  

All this, is my “why!” Thank you Lakeland, Bartow, and Winter Haven, for overwhelming us with ways to provide for the girls and women in your community with donations! It has truly been beautiful! 

We are always in need of volunteers, in many aspects of our mission. If you are interested in partnering with us, or becoming a volunteer please contact us. We also accept women’s clothing and accessory donations at all three of our locations. Stop in for a visit, we would love to see your smile and hear your “why!” May God continue to bless and guide you!