Smiles From His Wheelchair

Local Oaks Leader Dean Roddy was contacted a few months ago by a County agent and was asked if it was possible to help out a wheelchair bound man with advanced MS. The things that this man needed down were outside the guidelines that the county handles but they heard about The OAKS Mininstry.
Dean payed the man a visit and found that not only did he need some general help with clean-up but also needed some structural help with his home. This is also a mobile home ...can you imagine being confined to a wheelchair and then in some of the confinements of an older mobile home?

This man also has a teenage autistic daughter to care for.

Dean sent out a request and was able to get a team out there to help do some clean up. From there the structural needs still needed to be met. I soon found out that this man was a family acquaintance so I asked Dean if I could try to rally my family to his aid. I have a large family so I sent out the plight on our family website. Some of my sisters were quick to respond which was great and they will be a big help but what I needed was my brothers and I knew they were not the ones reading the site. I needed the builders (Ver Kuilen Builders to be specific)! I was able to contact them and because they were already building a home their time was limited, The OAKS Fund was used for the materials and in a day and 1/2 the structural part was completed. Mr G. was smiles from ear-to ear as he saw his home take on the needed changes. Now as soon as it warms up enough to open the windows, the drywall finishing can be done. That is where my sisters and I will come in, when I get back from the south we are planning to get it done and paint. We will also give the house a complete cleaning.

I love working with my Ministry family and this project brought an added dimension being able to have personal family step up to the need.

Psalm 138:8 The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever-- do not abandon the works of your hands.