This is Brian. He’s a youth worker like a lot of the readers of my blog. Brian was a youth pastor for a long time… then earlier year he took a huge leap of faith and uprooted his family from Missouri to Washington so that he could
spend the summer working on a boat and kind of re-find something. (People in ministry know exactly what this feels like.)
Here’s the deal. At the end of the summer Brian got seriously ill on board the boat. He had to be evacuated from the boat off the coast of Alaska and was flown back to Seattle where he learned he needed a kidney transplant and would need to go on dialysis immediately.
Long story short, Brian is out of money. He is the father of two and his wife is working… but with mounting medical bills and his complete inability to work they are in serious trouble. Brian has applied for help, he is seeking social security benefits, and all the other state aid programs they can… but that stuff takes more time to get started than they have money to make it through.
This is where Raising Lazarus comes in. I have the pleasure to partner with Patti as a board member of RL and I know it’s an incredible thing. Basically, we take no money out of donations and get them to the people who need them. (Who needs administrative costs?)
So this is what I’m asking
If you are able, would you be willing to contribute to Raising Lazarus for Brian and his family? As with any solicitation that RL does… we want to be perfectly clear. Don’t give us money if you aren’t tithing to your church. This would be something "over and above" all your normal things. But if you are willing to go without a couple of movie rentals or cups of coffee at Starbucks, you could make a big difference. Literally, you can help keep a family just transplanted into a new town and new state with no network, mounting medical bills, and mouths to feed in their home.
If you would like to contribute something, ANYTHING, to Brian and his family. Here is a link.
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