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 We are making this for Annie Brown. As alot of you already know her loving husband, Stan Brown passed away on Monday. We would like to get this out in hopes of giving Annie relief on bills. She has enough to worry about. She deserves this. Lets pull together and help her out when she needs it most. Anything will help. Please share.
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Stand With Annie Brown Through This Hard Time

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 It is with a heavy heart that I’m sharing this on behalf of my sister, Shelby, my brother-in-law, Kelly, and my sweet one-year-old nephew, Foxx.
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 If you’re unable to give financially, sharing this and keeping Foxx, Shelby, Kelly, their boys, Adler, Odin, Manon, Jett and their entire family in your thoughts and prayers means the world.
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Support Shelby & Kelly During Foxx’s Fight Against Cancer

<div>Hello Friends, well, to be honest, in my experience writing a book is much easier than writing something like this.
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<div>I’m the oldest of three boys, and asking for help is not something that comes easily to me. However, I’m at a point right now where I simply don’t have a choice but to reach out for some urgently needed assistance.
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<div>I have been making every effort to find full-time work where I live, while maintaining my writing ministry to the Body of Christ, but during a routine trip to an auto shop to prep my car for Winter, I got hit with some very traumatizing news---the rear suspension in my car needs to be completely replaced, and any further driving would be hazardous (which means that my job hunting is put on hold till the repairs can be made, so that really puts me in a tough position).
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<div>The shop also informed me that with the rear suspension being as bad as it’s been, has caused tremendous wear to the inside of my back tires, to the point where there’s almost no tread whatsoever---so again, dear friends, my job hunting is on hold until I can get this vehicle back on the road in safe condition, and that is really where I need your help.
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<div>It has been a tremendous honor to serve all of you in the Lord these past few years through the writing and podcast ministry that the Lord has entrusted to me, and He is also opening doors for ministry to rehabilitation and recovery centers---so having a full-time job to help support that new ministry opportunity will mean so very much. Thank you all so very much for enabling me to do that.
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<div>I am thrilled to be heading back to Guatemala for the fourth time this summer on a six-day mission trip to help families living in extreme poverty. Our team will be working on several construction projects, spreading the love of Christ to the niños through fun VBS activities, and providing shoes, clothing, personal hygiene kits, school supplies, and Bibles to dozens of women and children. We will also be building a children's ministry room for a small church and helping support the pastor there.
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<div>The video includes a few photos from last year's trip and pictures of one of the projects we'll be tackling this time. The families we're helping live in shacks and shanties with dirt floors and missing walls. We will be shoring up the structures and fixing roofs to make them more weatherproof, and building additional spaces for cooking and sleeping at a couple locations. Members of our team also will be training local volunteers to teach children's Bible studies and lead worship at a small church outside of the city center.
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<div>Thank you so much for partnering with me on this mission trip to be the hands and feet of Jesus. I pray God will multiply 100-fold the seed you sow, and regardless of whether you are able to contribute toward travel costs, I covet your prayers. Together, we can bring God's unfailing mercy and love to all the nations!
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<div>Eight people currently share one bedroom in the home of Jose and Mariela. Our construction team will be building a 10' x 12' room to provide additional sleeping quarters and will be repairing/replacing the walls and ceiling in the kitchen area (below) to better withstand seasonal heavy winds and rains.
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Changing Lives in Guatemala - Leslie's Summer Mission Trip

<p>At the age of 33 Ally has been diagnosed with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma.  We were lucky that we caught it early.  After the first surgery, which successfully removed the tumors, but not quite enough of the surrounding tissue, we found out she tested positive for the BRCA2 gene mutations, and as a result they have recommended a bi-lateral mastectomy with reconstruction.  

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<p><br />Both of us are fortunate to be working during COVID but our income has been drastically reduced due to our new jobs.  Ally unfortunately is not able to get short term disability through her employer and due to missing 2 weeks after the first surgery and possibly up to 4 weeks of work after the second we are already hurting.  While we have health insurance it has a very high deductible and out of pocket maximum, which we are sure to reach this year.

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<p><br />In addition to all this, the heating system in our house is failing and we are quite possibly going to incur a major expense to replace it.<br /><br />Through all of this, Ally has always been the type of person who would do anything for her friends and it has been difficult, because while she has continued to do everything she can to support her friends and family, the hardest thing for her has been, feeling like she cannot be there for the people who need her.  

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Ally’s cancer treatments

Dearest Facebook friends and family, I have been agonizing over how to write this latest and final update for a few weeks now....I have been up virtually every night till four or five or six in the morning, struggling with the end-of-life realities that our family is having to face.... <br /><br />Roopa has been completely confined to bed since the middle of August, with her respiratory condition getting weaker and weaker (her lung capacity has decreased to below 60%, as the lower lobes of her lungs have stiffened and no longer inflate), and so her pain levels are consistently getting higher, and basically her body is just giving up....And every single day and night is just a continuation of a struggle to make peace with her home going....<br /><br />Being with Roopa these past 19 plus years has been the very best part of my entire life, I just cannot begin to accept that this chapter is over...But her illness is really not letting us decide anything....Many of you have seen firsthand my wife’s brave and beautiful spirit in the face of suffering that many can’t even begin to comprehend; And she has lived this way for the better part of 15 years, so her precious body is simply wore out, even though her spirit continues to shine through... <br /><br />There have been so many times that I have believed God put her here just for me....that her real home has always been in heaven, but she was just put here for a little while, too rare a flower to be away from its heavenly environment, but I was, for some reason, privileged enough to be entrusted with her. I knew when I met her in March 2001 that she was unspeakably different from anyone I had ever known before...I just somehow knew that there was no one like her anywhere on this earth, and I must’ve asked God every day for those first three months “Please Lord, let her fall in love with me, I’ll never ask you for anything ever again”..<br /><br />And for almost 20 years now, my heart has had a home, a sanctuary.....a place to be at perfect rest....No matter what is going on in the world, if she’s in the same room with me, I feel completely at peace.....I truly wish all of you could have known her as I do.....If God could take the beauty of nature, song, and poetry, and put all of that into one single person, it would be my Roopa.....<br /><br />Please prayerfully consider helping us to Memorialize her most precious life......We have no coverage or insurance, as I was laid off in May after being on compassion leave, and we have no extended family or social support whatsoever, it’s just me, Roopa and Asha....<img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/52147748_1603720287542448_r.jpeg" alt="52147748_1603720287542448_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" />

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