Urgent Help for Mark Barbin
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Urgent Help Needed for Mark Barbin-In 2 weeks he will be homeless!
Mark Barbin, living in Dallas, TX was:
- Born with serious medical challenges
- Abandoned by his parents
- Confined to a wheelchair at age 12
- Hospitalized for countless surgeries
- Underwent amputation of his right leg at the hip in 2013
- Lost his Mom (grandmother) in 2015
- Lost his job in 2015
- Lost his apartment in 2015 and moved “temporarily” into an economy motel
- Lost his car in 2015
Please read Mark’s story and look into your heart to see if you can find a way to help him. Friends and family have helped over the last 2 years, but he needs $15,000 (or inkind gifts - apartment, two-door car)to extricate himself from what has become an intolerable situation.
Mark Barbin has been a special person in my life and that of my family from the day he was born. My mother and his grandmother were the best of friends. Mark came into the world with some very serious medical challenges with which he has struggled until this very day.
Mark is an overcomer, who put himself in God’s hands in 2004. In spite of a life of challenges, any one of which would level most mortals, Mark has persevered with a positive, optimistic attitude, never failing to consider himself the most blessed of men. He is a college graduate, indeed holding a Master’s Degree in Education, Curriculum and Instruction.
As a child, Mark was abandoned by both of his very young parents, because of his serious medical conditions and their lack of maturity in knowing how to cope. He was raised by his grandparents, both of whom are now deceased – his grandmother whom he calls Mom, passed just 18 months ago. This was an enormous loss for Mark, which helped contribute to the spiral that led to where he is today.
Due to a botched medical procedure, Mark has been in a wheelchair since he was 12 years old. Even so, he put himself through college at Dallas Baptist University and the University of North Texas, working retail.
Mark eventually became a teacher in the Lewisville Independent School District in 2004, where he worked until October 19, 2010, when he was forced into one of many medical leaves. He lost his full time job and was moved to the position of substitute teacher, but because of one hospitalization after another, he was not able to work at all. Without a job, he lost his apartment and his car with special adaptations, and even his cat Scully. All of that, added to the loss of his Mom, would have sunk most of us into a deep depression, but Mark with his strong faith and the help of friends, moved forward knowing that the Lord would provide. He moved into an inexpensive area motel in Dallas, intended as a temporary measure. That was an exhausting 13 months ago!
Mark now finds himself in a Catch 22. He does not have the money to continue paying for his motel room. The management is threatening eviction. He could go back to work now as a substitute teacher in the Lewisville ISD, and later hopefully full time, if he had transportation to get there. He needs a two-door, coupe style vehicle with special adaptations for hand controls. A two-door car has the room for him to lift his wheelchair and pull it across him to place it in the passenger side of the car. The donation of such a car would be miraculous; however, any two- door car would work because special hand adaptations can be added for approximately $1000. Mark also needs money to pay his outstanding apartment bills, to tide him over at the motel until he can get an apartment, and to get his furniture and other items out of storage.
We have set a total goal of $15,000 for this Go Fund Me Campaign. We would also welcome the gift of an apartment rental in the Dallas area. Maybe you know someone who owns apartments in Dallas.
Mark is also exploring avenues to live in government assisted housing (Section 8/rent-controlled) and to avail himself of the transportation system provided by area public agencies in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex (DART, DCTA, TRE).
Thank you for taking the time to read this and for prayerfully considering how you might be able to help Mark get a car so that he can get back to his job substitute teaching, and move into an apartment.
Mark Barbin, living in Dallas, TX was:
- Born with serious medical challenges
- Abandoned by his parents
- Confined to a wheelchair at age 12
- Hospitalized for countless surgeries
- Underwent amputation of his right leg at the hip in 2013
- Lost his Mom (grandmother) in 2015
- Lost his job in 2015
- Lost his apartment in 2015 and moved “temporarily” into an economy motel
- Lost his car in 2015
Please read Mark’s story and look into your heart to see if you can find a way to help him. Friends and family have helped over the last 2 years, but he needs $15,000 (or inkind gifts - apartment, two-door car)to extricate himself from what has become an intolerable situation.
Mark Barbin has been a special person in my life and that of my family from the day he was born. My mother and his grandmother were the best of friends. Mark came into the world with some very serious medical challenges with which he has struggled until this very day.
Mark is an overcomer, who put himself in God’s hands in 2004. In spite of a life of challenges, any one of which would level most mortals, Mark has persevered with a positive, optimistic attitude, never failing to consider himself the most blessed of men. He is a college graduate, indeed holding a Master’s Degree in Education, Curriculum and Instruction.
As a child, Mark was abandoned by both of his very young parents, because of his serious medical conditions and their lack of maturity in knowing how to cope. He was raised by his grandparents, both of whom are now deceased – his grandmother whom he calls Mom, passed just 18 months ago. This was an enormous loss for Mark, which helped contribute to the spiral that led to where he is today.
Due to a botched medical procedure, Mark has been in a wheelchair since he was 12 years old. Even so, he put himself through college at Dallas Baptist University and the University of North Texas, working retail.
Mark eventually became a teacher in the Lewisville Independent School District in 2004, where he worked until October 19, 2010, when he was forced into one of many medical leaves. He lost his full time job and was moved to the position of substitute teacher, but because of one hospitalization after another, he was not able to work at all. Without a job, he lost his apartment and his car with special adaptations, and even his cat Scully. All of that, added to the loss of his Mom, would have sunk most of us into a deep depression, but Mark with his strong faith and the help of friends, moved forward knowing that the Lord would provide. He moved into an inexpensive area motel in Dallas, intended as a temporary measure. That was an exhausting 13 months ago!
Mark now finds himself in a Catch 22. He does not have the money to continue paying for his motel room. The management is threatening eviction. He could go back to work now as a substitute teacher in the Lewisville ISD, and later hopefully full time, if he had transportation to get there. He needs a two-door, coupe style vehicle with special adaptations for hand controls. A two-door car has the room for him to lift his wheelchair and pull it across him to place it in the passenger side of the car. The donation of such a car would be miraculous; however, any two- door car would work because special hand adaptations can be added for approximately $1000. Mark also needs money to pay his outstanding apartment bills, to tide him over at the motel until he can get an apartment, and to get his furniture and other items out of storage.
We have set a total goal of $15,000 for this Go Fund Me Campaign. We would also welcome the gift of an apartment rental in the Dallas area. Maybe you know someone who owns apartments in Dallas.
Mark is also exploring avenues to live in government assisted housing (Section 8/rent-controlled) and to avail himself of the transportation system provided by area public agencies in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex (DART, DCTA, TRE).
Thank you for taking the time to read this and for prayerfully considering how you might be able to help Mark get a car so that he can get back to his job substitute teaching, and move into an apartment.
Organizer
Suzanne Langford Letch
Organizer
San Antonio, TX