Trinity Aid Bank Update

By Christa Johnson |  April 24, 2013

Thank you Trinity members and friends for your giving to TAB the last few months.  Together we gave $4,842.47!  Adding Thrivent Foundation’s 50% match of $2,421.24 and the initial grant amount of $5,000, we have a grand total of $12,263.71 for the TAB fund!!!

It’s been really nice to be able to help homeless families as they transition from homelessness to temporary housing and on to permanent housing.  One couple, with a baby on the way, had been working hard to find stability as they were transitioning from a past of drug and alcohol abuse.  When they came to us, they had been sleeping under a church stairwell.  We were able to help them out for a week in a motel as they waited on permanent housing from Catholic Community Services.  A single man with mental health issues found himself homeless in Everett, far from his family and home church in Missouri.  We put him up in a motel while his home church worked on getting him a bus ticket home.  We don’t often get thank you notes from those we help, but from these folks we did…

Hi,

You all helped me a week or so back (mid-March), and I wanted to let you know I made it home to Joplin, MO.  I just want to say thank you for all your help.  Your church was a God send to me while I was up in Washington.  I pray for the Lord to bless your church so you can keep helping people like you did me.  May God bless you and keep you.

 

Trinity Lutheran Church,

We are very blessed to have met someone who cares and was willing to help us.  We really appreciate everything you did for us.  We know you did what you did because you cared and that means a lot to us.  We will never forget about you.  Thank you and God bless you.

*In the interest of privacy we have not included names.

 

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