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 ...
Story We alert you today of and mother and her six girls (ages 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 2) that are in need of help. The father recently was sent to jail for sexually molesting one of the young girls. He was the sole provider for the family, and this has left the mother and her daughters in serious trouble. She has been able to sustain the family for the past few months with savings but is now at the end of her savings. She has recently ...
