Caring people like you are the reason we’re able to provide a joyous Christmas to families with children here in .
But after the holidays, the need in our community remains. And with the high cost of living and other impacts bringing so many families to our doors, the need right now is greater than ever.
Please extend your compassion with a generous gift today, and continue to bring food, shelter, emotional support, and other emergency assistance to people in who are struggling.
Here in , your kindness brightened the season for our neighbors, providing:
“Is Santa not going to come this year?” 10-year-old Mia asked her mom, Kate. “Did we do something bad?”
It was an innocent question, but it broke the mother’s heart.
Mia already faced so many challenges in her young life. She’d been born with several serious health conditions that required ongoing care.
Because of Mia’s medical needs, Kate missed work often. Eventually, her employer let her go.
For a time, unemployment insurance kept the family — kate, her husband Mark, and Mia and her brothers John and Cole — above water. When that ran out, Kate tried Social Security. Despite the family’s financial strain, they didn’t qualify.
As Christmas approached, the family’s worries deepened. “At the time, I wasn’t sure how to buy groceries, let alone gifts,” Kate recalls.
“It meant everything. It was people stepping in to do something for my kids that I couldn’t. ”
One day, at her daughter’s school, Kate ran into a Salvation Army staff member. She learned how kindhearted friends like you embrace struggling families like hers.
“There would not have been a single gift last Christmas if not for The Salvation Army,” Kate recalls.
Not only did friends like you provide gifts for Mia and her brothers, the family also received bedding and clothes. Mia especially loved the finger painting set she received.
“I wish I had the words to articulate what that meant to me,” Kate says. “It meant everything. It was people stepping in to do something for my kids that I couldn’t. I have the utmost appreciation and respect for The Salvation Army.”
At Christmas and throughout the year, you are a blessing for families in need, in your community. Thank you so much, and may God bless you for caring!
Please make a generous gift and extend the spirit of Christmas into this new year. Thank you!
*Names and photographs may have been changed to protect confidentiality.
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