Story I want to tell you up front that this Need Alert is a pretty big one. It will take all of us to meet this need, and if we are able, together we will provide some much needed financial relief for this family. In November of last year this family gave birth to their third child. The child was born with something called 18p Deletion Syndrome. This is very rare and only occurs in 1 out of every 50,000 children. As a result, ...
Story We alert you today of a woman who has dedicated her career to social work. However, she lost her job a few months ago and has been making ends meet with her savings. She has finally found full-time employment again in social work and will be working again next week. The issue is that she is completely out of savings and has no way to pay her rent. The last thing we want to see is her evicted when she will be fine in just ...
Story Ok... so we don't normally have two Need Alerts in the same day, but today we do! We alert you for a second time today because a 32 year old recovering addict that we are working with needs a little help. As a result of his addiction, he lost his wife. He took action and moved moved out-of-state to stay with extended family in an effort to get clean. He has now been sober for one year and has returned home to be close ...
Story It's Friday!!! We hope this Need Alert finds you well and looking forward to the weekend. Before we get into the Need, you should know that the lesson Jesse Horne wrote for this Need Alert is AWESOME. I hope you will check it out! Just click Learn in the "What You Can Do" section of this Need Alert. Ok...onward. We are working with a victim of domestic violence that needs a partial for her two front teeth. Her husb ...
Story We alert you today of a 60 year old man and wife that have lost their family home. Four years ago he lost his job during company layoffs. He has tried ever since to regain employment somewhere close to the level he was once employed. Although he has worked incredibly hard to find employment that would allow them to maintain their lifestyle, he simply has not been able to do it. After struggling for the past several years th ...
Story We alert you today of a 75 year old widow thats home has been flooded due to a plumbing issue. In January of this year her husband of 56 years passed away. She does have some family around her, but she has been struggling financially, as well as with anxiety, since her husband passed away. She has been able to make ends meet until she ran into the plumbing issue last week. Last Sunday her home was flooded and she is now ...
