This story is an example of one family that I have been helping recently. The mother of seven with barely a roof over their heads, and not merely enough money to provide even the smallest of toys for the baby through ages 12, her children share a small four room house with three beds and the very basic of necessities. A small Christmas tree propped up against the wall in a corner barely standing with bare branches. Not a single ornament or gift to add to it.
As I observed the 3 year old trying to entertain herself, I watched her happily take a disconnect notice for a utility service they would soon be without, and turn it into a car. She folded it up to make it resemble a car and for the wheels she found a few buttons and one penny. Of course she couldn 't move the car as the items were not attached, and I realized that the situation was their lives.
The mother has a vehicle with only one payment left to make, but as many of you know, that last payment is often the same …show more content…
Anyway, I gathered some details about the family, and then gathered as much as I could bring over to them from my house. I couldn 't get there until almost 9pm, because I was helping at the DCS facility that was short on volunteers to help care for the many kids in their care that night, so I was a little concerned about showing up to a strangers house in Phoenix after dark. I said a quick prayer in my car, and knew that God was with me. I met the family, and learned many things about them, but the only thing that I needed to know was that they were in need of help, and I could help them. Not just with material items, but the mother was in desperate need of knowing that God wasn 't punishing her and causing her that horrible
As I observed the 3 year old trying to entertain herself, I watched her happily take a disconnect notice for a utility service they would soon be without, and turn it into a car. She folded it up to make it resemble a car and for the wheels she found a few buttons and one penny. Of course she couldn 't move the car as the items were not attached, and I realized that the situation was their lives.
The mother has a vehicle with only one payment left to make, but as many of you know, that last payment is often the same …show more content…
Anyway, I gathered some details about the family, and then gathered as much as I could bring over to them from my house. I couldn 't get there until almost 9pm, because I was helping at the DCS facility that was short on volunteers to help care for the many kids in their care that night, so I was a little concerned about showing up to a strangers house in Phoenix after dark. I said a quick prayer in my car, and knew that God was with me. I met the family, and learned many things about them, but the only thing that I needed to know was that they were in need of help, and I could help them. Not just with material items, but the mother was in desperate need of knowing that God wasn 't punishing her and causing her that horrible