Meet Dana Foster | Laundry Pickup and Delivery Service

We had the good fortune of connecting with Dana Foster and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Dana, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business?
A little about me. I am Mama to four incredible children and two more babies that are with Jesus. I live in South Midlothian and have been in this area since 2013. I love the mountains! I could also go camping any time the weather is cool. I enjoy playing the piano and movie night and game night with my children. But I can honestly I say I never saw myself as an entrepreneur using laundry for the Kingdom of God. My journey includes years of struggle, hope, endurance and God surprising me at every turn. Let me start at the beginning.

I accepted Jesus at 11, but after leaving for college, I also left Jesus behind me. I was in a destructive cycle and at 26, I lost my first child. The very next year I was married and gave birth to my oldest daughter. Getting pregnant with her was the beginning of my attempt to look to Jesus again. The circumstances of my life were difficult. Marriage and money were hard. But, December of 2008 my knees hit the floor in complete desperation. I surrendered to Jesus, telling Him “I give up! I can’t do it. Everything is a mess. I will do whatever you tell me to do. I am all yours.” December 12, 2008, my circumstances were the same but my life drastically changed as I began pursuing Jesus with everything I had.

The circumstances of my life remained difficult. Marriage continued to be so hard. Money felt non existent and I was always looking for any side job to help with finances. We had to move out of our home and lease it out when I was 9 months pregnant with our second child. But even that difficulty was different with Jesus. Even when my persute was broken and faulty at times, life was shifting and so much differnt.

Through these years I worked part time or full time. We lost another baby in 2015 and in 2016 I started homeschooling my two oldest and gave birth to our third. Shortly after the 2020 Covid pandemic, my husband walked out and then filed for divorce. I was devastated. I argued with God “You told me to stay, to obey and that you would provide for us, what do I do now?!” Even in this painful season as I wrestled with God, Jesus was faithful, good and patient. I knew God was asking me to wait on Him to provide and give me the work I needed for my family.

I hate waiting. I am terrible at waiting. I found myself running ahead to find ways I could work and earn money and then in my fear come to God and prayer and again hear Him say “I told you to trust Me and wait.” And this was the dance I did for awhile – run ahead and try to make a way for myself and God slowing me down telling me to wait.

In the summer of 2022, I began reading several different books on intercessory prayer. God was deepening my love for intercessory prayer and my own prayer life was changing! At the same time I randomly came across a comments about laundry services – about 3 in the course of a month and while journaling one day, the thought came to me, “God are you going to have me start a laundry service?!” I literally laughed out loud, pushed the thought away and kept moving.

School started and after I dropped my two youngest at school (I still homeschool my second daughter and my oldest is in college) I reached out to some women in my church family that I highly respect and asked them to pray over some very specific words and visions that the Lord had given me. Let me tell you, I wanted NOTHING to do with this idea of a laundry service if it was not ALL God! I have learned that unless God is at the center, the fight to make things work is a different kind of hard. And ain’t nobody got time for that. I kept asking my friends, “Is this crazy? Where do you even come up with an idea like this?!” It was never on my radar. But it was always on the Lord’s. I had asked one friend to pray over things and then we meet the next morning to compare what we both heard the Lord saying. I shared the words and verses the Lord had given me and she did the same. As we complied them and prayed together, the Lord gave clarity on the name Folds of Grace. I had told the Lord, this is your company. I naming it what you say because it will do your work. And then over the next few days, I spoke with some other respected people and asked them to pray over this and give me their honest opinion, And every one of them gave me a definite “YES!”

Every single detail was falling into place and I WAS NOT the one doing it. As the business came together, I was like, “What if we touch clothing and it changed lives? What if marriages were changed because women were able to work in their homes to bring in a little bit of income? What if women could work from home to finance date nights that they weren’t able to afford before? What if I got to pray with these women and their lives and homes and we got to watch God at work in their homes and families?” God had begun the work of loving intercessory prayer months before and now He was taking that work and merging it with a business idea to make it so much more than just a good business plan – it was a Kingdom plan. The possibilities felt endless. My mind was spinning with excitement and anticipation as to what the Lord was up to.

We started a test market and after barely starting that we already had multiple families asking for our services. God had used my heart for prayer, my heart for women, marriages, families and change in the community, to birth a business. He was also teaching me, that He could be trusted. That man may fail but He does not. That my children and I were in the hands of a God that was after our hearts and a deeper relationship with Him. That our circumstance were only but the clay and the Master Craftman was up to something with each of us.

Since that first test market God has been faithful to send more families who need laundry done but more than that, need prayer. God has also provided extra income for multiple families through the women who work with me. The last year has been a consistent display of God providing clients right when we needed them as well as God providing Folds of Grace in a person’s life right when they needed us.

Because God is a REALLY BIG GOD, I love laundry. I know that every load washed, dried, and folded means a family has been prayed over and loved on. I know that when we deliver laundry to a doorstep, we’re really sending supernatural support through prayer over their home.

Folds of Grace is a pickup and delivery service for your everyday laundry needs. We exist to serve and pray for our communities. We offer grace to those who are busy and need the ability to spend more time on what matters in life. By taking laundry off your to do list, we are giving back countless hours to spend with family, friends, work, school, or the hobbies you never seem to have time to enjoy. Folds of Grace also provides income for women who feel called to stay home. All over Dallas/Fort Worth, our Folders make local pickups, bring your laundry into their own homes to wash, dry, fold, and spend time praying over you and your families. Your fresh, clean laundry is returned neatly folded and placed on your porch.

What should our readers know about your business?
We are a laundry pickup and delivery service that allows stay at home moms to stay home and make money from working in their homes. We pray. And we pray a lot, for all of our clients. It’s part of our business. Every single Fold is delivered with a prayer card inside of it that has a specific prayer for each family, each and every week. It has not been easy but it has been sweet. Figuring out how to be a single mom and also run a business as well as homeschool and stay involved in all of my children’s things and our church has been a whole thing to figure out. But the Lord, most faithful, just keeps guiding us along.

I want the world to know that, if God calls you to something, He will guide you and lead you the whole way. Don’t quit. Just keep going. Use all the support and prayers around you.

I love our company because we are serving busy families that just need more time with family. We take a chore off their plate that can take an entire day away from them, if all they have is a Saturday to complete it. We give people jobs so they can stay in their homes and have a bit more money to help their family. And we pray. We pray. We pray. And prayer changes everything.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
Oh we would probably head to the hill country. Somewhere that’s not filled with lots of people. Make sure and go to all of the hole in the wall restaurants, spend time in coffee shops and visit a winery. We might go into little shops and find a great place for a massage and pedicure.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
The women around me helped push me on! But the main character is God. He is the one that has pushed and encouraged and guided and loved me to where we are today.

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