12/11/2016
Greetings,
Every day we are presented with opportunities to serve our lord by helping others. I know this is a very busy, and inconvenient time for everyone. Saturday morning December 17 at 9am, you can be the hands, feet, and heart of God for two multi-generational families in our community by giving just a few hours of your time.
Pam Haney called yesterday morning to ask for help moving her daughter and grandchildren from a trailer in Wetumpka to a new home in Prattville.
Kenneth, her husband of forty-one years, is in Jackson Hospital battling lung cancer and a severe kidney infection. At over six feet tall, he was once a strong husband, father, and provider for his family. Today he is fighting for his life, bedridden, and 142 pounds.
Ken and Pam survive on Social Security. Much of their monthly checks are eaten up in medical expenses. Pam has lupus, a chronic, autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body (skin, joints, and/or organs inside the body) and causes general muscle weakness. They moved in with their daughter Stacey six months ago when it became too hard for Pam to take care Ken of by herself.
Stacey also has lupus and is a full-time mom to her four children; Andrew 9, Ethan 7, Isabella 4, and Owen 3. Her husband, Russell, has been unemployed for some time, but has a temporary position in the Montgomery magistrates office that could become permanent after the first of the new year. Stacey and Russell moved into a low-rent trailer in Wetumpka about eighteen months ago. The coolest they can get the trailer in the summer is 85 degrees with the AC running full time. It costs them over $500/month just to run the AC. They didn't anticipate the cost or inefficiency of the heating and cooling system or that they would be taking care of Stacey's father.
Elaine Tesh owns the home that Pam & Her family are moving into. She is 80 years old. She and her husband of 19 years bought the house two years ago in the same neighborhood where Elaine grew up and had many friends. They moved in a little at a time, commuting from Dothan, over an eighteen-month period. Very shortly after the move, her husband became ill and died of cancer.
Grief-stricken, she was not able to live in the new home. She bought a smaller property in East Prattville. Unfortunately, she found herself isolated in a world of thirty and forty somethings. Her daughter Geni, also disabled, had moved into the house on Adell street with her sixteen-year-old autistic son. When it became evident that her mom needed company they decided to all move in together in another home on Poplar Street. The move is still in progress, but when completed will make the house on Adell available for the Haney family.
The Haney family now has a warm, handicap accessible home big enough her three generation household at below market rent. But they need help moving in.
Mrs.Tesh and her daughter Geni, need help moving the remainder of their belongings to the new home on Poplar.
This can be a great win for everybody involved. They just need a little help. The moves are planned for Saturday morning December 17 at 9am. We need two teams of four able bodied men each and at least two pick-up trucks with trailers. We also need to move a 10' x 12' storage shed from Wetumpka to Prattville.
Please call Mike Harris at (334) 224-0751 or Tom Risher at (334) 318-4400 for more details, including the addresses.
