
Karissa's Rescue Fund
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Hello my name is Faith, I am one of Karissa’s closest friends. Karissa’s sweet fiancé, Jacob Barrett, a worship leader and talented singer/songwriter, passed away just a few weeks before Christmas. Jacobs passing was sudden and very very tragic. It is my hope to financially support Karissa for at least the next 6-8 months while she heals; covering all of her living expenses, health needs, and recovery expenses during this time of painful loss and unexpected hardship.
Karissa and Jacob had recently moved and purchased a home near Redding, in Shasta Lake, CA, where Jacob was working with his Father’s flooring business. She and Jacob had intended to live in the home together after they married later this Spring. Jacob was helping her to cover the costs of their new mortgage. Their move also entailed a deep desire to serve with their gifts of music and leading worship, both at the historic Lighthouse Church (serving much of the homeless population in Redding) and hopes to get further involved at Bethel Church (known for their school of worship ministry, BSSM, and WorshipU).
Karissa is a few months away from finishing her Masters in Clinical Counseling, but has been given an extension by her professors as she takes time to heal and mourn Jacobs’ loss. Her internship/job was supposed to start early this year, but she has need of some downtime first to fully recover and feel able to be fully present to her work and passion to help others in their processes of transformation and redemption.
Karissa’s health and strength has mysteriously been on the decline for many years, but has been most seriously effected at this time of hardship and trauma. Karissa was diagnosed with Lymes Disease and Epstein Barr (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ) in 2016 by specialists in Los Angeles.
Many of you know that stress and trauma will significantly elevate the negative symptoms of both Epstein Barr and the Lymes infection and co-infections. Karissa, who used to flow heavily in administration and activating the dreams of visionary’s around her into real projects, is now struggling immensely with just the simple daily acts of getting ready and keeping her life in basic order; her energy just runs out very, very quickly and she needs to lie back down to recover. There are days where she simply has to rest the entire day just so she can have a small amount of energy for the next day to try to catch up on whatever she is working on. The smallest tasks can make her completely exhausted— which is excruciatingly frustrating for someone with her personality and calling who wants to activate and manifest the big dreams of those around her, with all her heart.
She also struggles with serious recent stomach issues, on again off again fevers of over 100 degrees, which are lasting for over a week, in addition to physical pain from chronic inflammation, neck and back complications. In order to protect her privacy, I won’t go into all her health symptoms, but please understand that it’s very serious, especially at this time when grief has only added to her physical pain and inflammation cycles.
It is my hope that we can raise 6+ months of living expenses: Mortgage payment, utilities, food, supplements/medicine, gas, and the cost for her to keep seeing her Functional MD for Lymes and Fatigue support. It is also my desire to send Karissa somewhere relaxing and healing, so she can get away and get some much needed R and R at an inner healing retreat center, like Monarch Healing Center in Texas, or Restoring the Foundations in North Carolina.
Join our team in caring for this most valuable and precious woman full of soul, destiny, and a spirit of worship and song unto the King. Karissa has been such a loyal friend to me through the years, even when she was struggling herself, she has offered me free housing when I was ill, and faithfully tended to me when I was sick many times. Even going as far as staying 10 days in a Tijuana hospital in Mexico for emotional support.
I love her so much, as do many of you. Let’s come together as the Body of Christ and make her life as easy and comfortable as possible during this sensitive and very difficult, painful time.
Organizer and beneficiary
Eric Enberg
Organizer
Lake Shasta, CA
Karissa Catlin
Beneficiary