We alert you today to a 57-year-old husband and father recovering from open heart surgery. On July 20th, he was rushed to the hospital, fearing he was suffering from heat stroke after being in the sun all day. Doctors discovered he had a torn valve in his heart. The following Friday, he underwent open heart surgery to repair the valve and was released from the hospital on August 2nd. He now has a 12-week recovery process before he can be cleared ...

We alert you today to a mother and three children (24, 23, 17) that have recently been abandoned by their husband/father. The 17-year-old daughter was born with a cleft palate and a genetic disorder called Stickler Syndrome, making her bones more easily prone to being sprained or fractured and requiring multiple rounds of physical therapy every year. In addition, she has gone through more than 40 surgeries over many years to repair her cleft pala ...

Today we alert you to a young family with one child that is heading in the right direction but has hit a snag. The husband works full-time and also goes to school full-time. The mother worked last year as a bus attendant. She has secured a paraprofessional position with the local county school system. Her new position is a promotion and a pay increase. However, the job transition created a lapse in her regular pay cycle, leaving them short by $60 ...

Today we alert you to a single woman who is a preschool teacher. Three weeks ago, she became ill with an unidentified virus. She tried to work through the illness but, as her condition worsened, she couldn’t even do the simplest tasks without becoming exhausted. After a few weeks, she was hospitalized with pneumonia. She is a type II diabetic. While she was in the hospital, her blood pressure spiked to an alarming level. She has missed several we ...

We alert you today to a family that has experienced turmoil while welcoming their third child. In April, the mother was laid off from her full-time job a few weeks before their baby was born. At that time, they moved the family into her mother’s home, who needed help after being diagnosed with lymphoma. Not long after that, the husband was hit by a car while on his motorcycle. He is still recovering in the hospital. This new mother is strong and ...

We alert you today to a grandmother who will now be raising her three grandchildren (10, 6, 3) after their mother's unexpected death. The grandmother was the first to discover her daughter had passed away from a seizure in her home. As you can imagine, the sadness is overwhelming and the transition will be difficult. The grandmother is in need of financial support to obtain guardianship of the children. She needs to register the kids with the cou ...