07.28.07 I Need A Guy
Lately I’ve been talking about what the Church could be in a different way. We could be like the mafia, I’ve been thinking. If anyone in the “family” needs something - just imagine - someone else in the “family” pipes up with, “I Gotta Guy...”
I gotta guy that can fix your back, put in a hot water heater, mow your yard while you’re out of town, help you cover your kid’s college tuition...do what you need done.
Well, I need a guy and I’m hoping you are one or you know one. We’re family after all.
A friend of ours, Judy, has been told she has only a few months to live. She wants to try to extend her life to six months with chemotherapy. Before the chemicals make it impossible for her to travel, she’d like to take a trip with her kids and husband, to Disneywhatever in Florida. Our church and friends have already taken care of Disney tickets and hotel accomodations but they need our help with airline tickets.
Brian and I fly a lot and are donating the American Airline miles we’ve accumulated to them. They’ll need a total of 125K American Airlines advantage miles to cover the five airfares. We need to make this happen quickly. If you have some miles or would like to donate some money toward a ticket, please email my friend Brian at
I need a guy. Can you help?
said:
Thank you Shaun for helping to get the word out about Judy. A fund has also been setup at Amsouth bank to help the family out financially. Thankfully they do have insurance but it is private insurance so even after they pay the high decuctable they are responsible for 20% of the costs. So if anyone can help financially it will go a long way to help the family.
Above all else please pray for this family. The doctors have already given up hope....but we haven’t.
said:
I have emailed Brain and await his response. Praying too.
Beth
Steven said:
shaun. my prayers are with your friend and her family as they go through this.
and i ancourage everyone that reads this today to get this information out on your blogs and spread the word out as far as it can go.
the more people that know, the more people that can help this family in need.
after all, isn’t that what being an on-line family is all about.
let’s be more than words and blogs to these people.
truevyne said:
Linked to this post on my blog for you and yours.
Susanne said:
I’m praying for this family and about what I can do to help them. I’ll also link to this post on my blog. What a great idea of how we can help each other.
Kat said:
Wow. I don’t have any American Airlines miles, but I’ve posted about it on my blog.
said:
We have about 38,000 NWA (World Perk) miles, can those be used?