Story Good afternoon. This is the second Need Alert of the day. Normally we try to spread these out a little better, but the need that came up this afternoon just can't wait. We have been made aware of a wife and mother to 4 children that has been suffering from HSV since she was a young child. The virus creates fever blister outbreaks on her face and recently has moved into her eyes, which left untreated can endanger her s ...

Story Good Morning. We alert you of a need we have developed from a 68 year old single woman. She originally came to us needing help with her rent. As we do with any person in need, that is willing, we took her through a detailed budget analysis. In that analysis we quickly realized that she is able to make everything work on her own if she just had a little help. She was living on just her Social Security income and a very ...

Story Good Morning. We alert you today of a 27 year old single mother of a 7 year old boy that is in need. In 2011 she was forced to stab her abusive boyfriend in order to preserve her own life. Her boyfriend, and father of her child, died from the stab wounds. She was found to be justified in her action and the court system advised her to move for her own protection. Her abuser was a active gang member and they had reason to ...

Story Good Afternoon. We alert you today of a grandmother that is caring for her three children and 6 month old grandchild. She is a Cuban refugee and works as a housekeeper for an apartment company we work with often. She has a mentally disabled 19 year old son, a sixteen year old daughter that just gave birth six months ago to a baby girl, and a 7 year old boy. She supports all of them on a housekeeper's pay. She does not re ...

Story Good Afternoon. We alert you today of a man that has recently been employed after a job search that lasted several months. He is very thankful for his new job, but it requires him to commute 36 miles each day. This was not an issue until he began having car trouble. He took his car to the dealership and they wanted $1,300 to repair the vehicle. That is when he reached out to our church partner. We referred him to the chu ...

Story We hope you had a wonderful weekend and are off to great start this Monday morning. We alert you today of a family that is in a really tight spot through no fault of their own. The father works full time for a large company and the mother is not able to work outside of the home because their 17 year old autistic son has been in decline for 2 years. Helping him deal with the day to day is a full-time effort for the mother ...