It’s been two and a half weeks since I put out a plea to all my blog readers, Twitter friends and Facebook peeps to help our friends beat foreclosure.
The plea was simple — can we get 450 people to donate $10 by Nov 1 to help them keep their house.
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The family is actually $9,000 behind on their mortgage after the economy fell into the crapper and the husband had to close his business.
He’s now working for a couple different fire departments while the wife is finishing nursing school and working nights two or three times a week at a local hospital. They have three young kids.
They’re pretty certain they can get $4,500 together by the first of November, but they’ll need to sell their car and pull money from their retirement fund for any hopes to get the rest.
I thought I’d give an update on a few things… as you can see by our sidebar, we’re nearing the $1450 mark (as of 4:07 pm 10/08/09). But we still have a ways to go.
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We’ve received donations from numerous people, including folks that have no clue who our friends are. They’ve just seen a need and wanted to help. That blesses my heart tremendously. I love seeing people become the hands and feet of Jesus — rather they realize (or accept) that or not.
It’s also been a big encouragement to our friends to see the donations as well.
Also, they’ve received some good news over the last week or so, the bank has agreed to work with them and has pushed the deadline back to Jan. 1. That 60 day extension is a huge relief.
And our friend received word today that she has a job waiting for her upon graduation!
Now we just need to find 305 more people, willing to donate $10 a piece and we’ll reach our goal! Are you in?
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Is there an update to this effort? House gone or retained?
thanks for checking. we raised over $4100 for the family and that went right to the bank. as I understand it, they're still not officially in the clear with the bank. they've paid all the bank has requested of them and are waiting for a refinance of their mortgage. however they've received a number of different messages/letters from the bank recently so they're not completely sure where they stand.