[Vision2020] Sojourners' needs our help.

[Bill London]

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Thanks for the reminder.  You are correct and your message prodded me to send a check today
BL
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bev Bafus 
  To: vision 2020 
  Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 8:47 AM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Sojourners' needs our help.


  I don't know how many visionaries read the article in Saturday's Daily News about Sojourners' Alliance, the local transitional homeless shelter.  If you haven't seen it, please purchase a paper, or go on-line and read the article.

  As a member of the board, and the Treasurer, I would like to encourage everyone in the community to give something to the shelter. Our corporate grants have shrunk considerably, some companies eliminating all giving, and others cutting donations in half.  Private donations have decreased as well.  But the need has increased, with people calling daily for help.

  As Randy Paulin stated so eloquently in the article, it could by any of us who need the services of Sojourners.  My husband had a stroke last year, and if it hadn't been for a disability policy he bought years ago, we could very well be on the streets today.  Seriously, we all need to consider how many paychecks away from homelessness we all are.

  We cannot house a family in the family unit of the shelter until the shower and walls are fixed.  We need to pay ongoing maintenance and utility bills.  We need to pay the staff wages, who are all doing an incredible job.

  Please give what you can, every little bit helps.

  Sojourners' Alliance - 627 N. Van Buren #1 - Moscow, ID  83843



  Thanks!

  Bev Bafus





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