Story We alert you today of a 51-year-old widow that is in need of new garage doors. She has been a widow for 6 years now and her home has been in decline ever since due to lack of maintenance. She is a long time member of one of our local church partners and we are working with her to get her home back in order. She works full time and is able to remain financially stable. However, she does not have the financial ability to make ...
Story We alert you today of a single mother, of 3 children, that has been homeless since July. The children are 5, 9, and 18 years old and the youngest has Down Syndrome. The 18-year-old son has moved out and is providing for himself but she has been caring for her 2 young children while living in motels and recently with the children's former nanny. It all started when she lost her employment. She really struggled to regain e ...
Story We alert you today of a woman in need of car repairs. She had worked for many years as an LPN until she was laid off from the hospital she was working in due to administrative changes. They let go of all of the Licensed Practical Nurses. She has gone back to school to become a Registered Nurse so that she can go back to work in the hospital. She is doing very well in school. She has had some car issues and was told that ...
Story We alert you today of a single mother, of a 13-year old daughter, that is fighting stage 4 colon cancer. In May of this year, she went to the doctor because she thought she was dealing with an ulcer. It tuned out to be stage 4 colon cancer. She underwent surgery to remove the tumor and while in surgery they discovered another tumor that they could not remove. She spent 3 weeks in the hospital. She is now in chemotherapy unt ...
Story I was reminded this week by a pastor friend of mine that so much of what we do is to help those people "in the middle". These are the people that are not unstable enough to receive government benefits, but not financially secure enough to handle unforeseen events. That is certainly the case with today's Need Alert. We alert you today of a husband and father of three that was laid off from his job a month ago after workin ...
Story We alert you today of a really hard working young woman that we have been walking alongside for some time now. Her family has been in and out of homelessness most of her life and she started college this summer. You may remember Need 17.38 where the One Need Community was able to help her get into her college apartment. Well, she got into her apartment, took summer classes, and made 2 As and 2 Bs. We are very proud and exci ...
