Give the Gift of Transportation

VERY SPECIAL NEED:  
A client that desperately wants to go back to school could use your help!  We are trying to raise money to provide bus passes for Ms. Esther to go back to school for the next 9 months.  She does not have transportation and our goal is to give her 5 bus passes each week for the entire 9 months so transportation is one less thing she will have to worry about.  If you would like to support Ms. Esther in her pursuit of a better life and a career, please think about sponsoring her by helping provide her the gift of transportation.

Weekly sponsor - $17.50 (5 passes X $3.50)

Monthly sponsor - $70.00 (20 passes X $3.50)

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You do not have to donate these amounts, anything will be a blessing and will definitely help!
Click here to donate:  www.ruthsheart.org/donations
Please put "Esther - school" in the memo of your donation and also mark the recurring box if you'd like to support her each week or each month.  100% of donations will be used to help Ms Esther with her transportation to school.  Esther has been a client for several months and has been through a lot.  She is also her husband's caretaker who has had several strokes over the last couple years.  She is very excited about going  back to school!  We would love to be part of this journey with her.  Thank you for following us, for your support and more importantly for your prayers for Esther and all of our clients who are such blessings to our ministry.  

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Bus Passes are on their way!!!

Today's passes are being sent for Transportation to new Jobs, Job Searches, GED classes, and Food Pantries!

Please keep these clients in your prayers as they use these passes to move forward in their lives.  

Debra

Doris

Donald

Esther

Steffon

Thank you for your prayers and support for these and all of our clients!  Please visit our webpage or visit us on facebook for more information about Ruth's Heart or to follow stories where your support truly IS making a positive difference in peoples lives!

What a difference a "walker" makes...

Sometimes we get calls and the needs and story that follows are just too good not to share!!!

This is a story about what ministry partnership looks like, a homeless friend, a walker and the fire dept...... 

We received a call on Saturday from a friend that feeds the homeless as their ministry (Ann Hingle). A homeless friend of theirs (Red) had broken his walker and was stuck on the 7th floor of an apartment building, he couldn't get down without his walker and the friend he was visiting had left.

Another ministry partner, Big Dog Street Ministry, had given Ruth's Heart a walker that was donated to them several months ago and they couldn't use, so we actually HAD a walker for their friend, Red.

What a Blessing this donation was!

We called Red and he didn't know the address of his friends apt. and the friend was gone...we explained that we "have" a walker for you but we really have to know where you are in order to bring it to you. He said he would figure it out...

A little while later he called and said he had called the fire dept. and they were there. I asked him if he was ok and and he said he knew they could tell him the address where he was...ok, I know it's not a good use of our tax money but to me it was.....genius!  However, the building was locked so nobody could get in, so Red had to figure out a way to get downstairs to let us in...he found a shopping cart (again, genius) and it worked as a temporary walker and he was able to get downstairs!

So we then took the new walker to another ministry partner (Jacob's Well) and their van driver took the walker to Red after church and then even transported him to a shelter.

So this sounds like a LOT to go through but what REALLY was the cost of helping this man? From being stuck in an apt. with no way out and not sure anyone really cared...To having a new walker, shelter for the night and security of knowing he could get around...the cost was really just a few phone calls, a walker that was donated, and a little time on the part of the volunteers.

Sometimes it really is the little things that make the biggest difference...make a difference today in the life of someone that needs to know "somebody" cares about them. The cost may be small but the reward is so great.

"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in." Matthew 25:35

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