Story We alert you today of an 18 year old young man that has been abused and taken advantage of his entire life. When alerting needs, we typically do not use names to tell the story but we are going to do so with this need. This is a very large Need Alert and we want to be clear on the impact your prayers, advocacy, and donation will have on this young man's life. Eddie started off in the foster system of Alabama at age 5 due ...

Story We alert you today of a 68 year old single woman that needs a little help. She is on a fixed retirement income and has taken some financial hits over the past 6 months. It started with her air conditioning unit breaking late last summer. She was forced to spend $4,800 to get it fixed. Just a few months later she was made aware of a serious septic tank issue at her home. She financed the $1,400 to fix that issue. Last week h ...

Story We alert you today of a family of 4 that is regaining stability after becoming homeless last summer. The father was laid off from his job last year and after running though all of their savings, the family was forced to be homeless. Our local partner was called about the family when their car broke down in a grocery store parking lot. It was soon discovered that the family has been living in their car for quite some time an ...

Story We alert you today for the last time in this very busy week of  a woman who has suffered several stokes and is disabled. She receives disability and normally her finances are fixed and stable. At the end of last year her mother and her father passed away just 3 months apart. They did not have insurance of any kind and she used her fixed income to bury them both. She has been behind financially ever since and is now facing e ...

Story We alert you today of a need that is a little larger than we typically alert. Please keep in mind that we do not have any set rules around the needs we alert. However, we take every Need Alert seriously and as the gross amount of the Need Alert grows we feel even more pressure to double and triple check all other options. We assure you that this case is no different. We are working with one of our local partners to save ...

Story We alert you today of a single woman that is in desperate need. Several years ago she moved from Chicago to Atlanta to help her daughter attend college. He daughter did not do well in college and shortly dropped out and moved back to Chicago. Her mother could not just simply pick up and move back to Chicago with her. She had a lease on an apartment and a job. However, she was laid off from her job in October of last year. S ...