Story We alert you today of a 28-year-old recovering addict in need. This young man was addicted to drugs for ten years. Last year his five-year-old daughter was taken into state custody, and he hit rock bottom. The young man came to Christ and has been sober for four months. He is working through the required steps to regain custody of his little girl as the mother is still using and in jail. He completed his mandatory 90 days o ...
Story We alert you today of a family that is in need because of series of seemingly minor events colliding simultaneously in a sort of perfect storm. Several months ago the wife and mother quit her job to attend full time. The family had looked at the budget and thought that they were ready to make this short-term sacrifice for the long-term gain. However, that same week the husbands hours were cut at work, and he was basically o ...
Story We alert you today of a hard working father of six school-aged children. He works well over 40 hours per week and has for many years. Recently he was caught up in a legal situation, and he was proven to be not at fault in any way. However, he still suffered financially from the legal costs of defending himself and the time he missed from work. We are working closely with him through one of our local partners, and we have ma ...
Story We alert you today of a 69-year-old wife that is working full time and caring for her husband that is in the advanced stages of dementia. We have a long-standing relationship with this family (30 years) through our local church partner and the husband nearing the end of his life here on earth. She has been fighting to stay afloat through this situation for several years. He cannot remain while she works, so she relies on fa ...
Story We alert you today of a recently single mother of two children. On top of being heartbroken, she is now uncovering the financial situation the father has left her and the children in as a result of his gambling addiction. She has always worked full time and worked very hard, and now she finds herself behind on most of her bills. She is determined to get things under control, and we agree with her that she will make this wor ...
Story We alert you today of a woman that was an addict for a very long time and is now seventeen months and eighteen days sober. (She became addicted to prescription pain pills after an accident left her with a broken back and hand. The addiction led to her arrest) She has been working nights from 9:30 pm to 5:30 am then getting her children off to school at 7 am. She is then sleeping for just a few hours and reporting to work t ...
