I have good reason for setting no limits on my hope for the Rashel Foundation and the community we serve. Last week Mike one of our troop members, spent four hours of his day serving, Virginia, one of our foundation grant recipients, by helping to repair a leak in her roof. Friday afternoon the 24th I received a call from Elise at Impact, a program through UAB hospital. Her patient Eddie is thirty years old and lives in Montgomery, he was being discharged from the hospital that evening and needed a ride to the grey hound bus station, TRF was able to provide that much needed ride for Eddie and Elise was relieved of a pressing need. Monday April 27th, a social worker from UAB hospital contacted me in reference to one of her patients, Ruth, that lives in Warrior Alabama. Ruth’s daughter brings her in to the city daily for her radiation treatments but her daughter has had to take a large amount of time from work and needed some help getting her mom safely to her radiation treatments, each day at the same time. TRF was able to provide Ruth’s needed transportation Wednesday April 29th, today the 30th and tomorrow the 1st. The beauty of this gift is it blesses more then just Ruth… it relieves Karen, Ruth’s social worker, Karen, Ruth’s daughter and Ruth herself. We are privileged to be able to serve. May we daily move beyond ourselves to love on others. If your desire is to serve and you need to know how, or where? Email me, I can plug you in.

Troops, thank you to everyone who helped to make the garage sale this past weekend happen. Cindy Bourne, your hard work made it possible. Thank you! I enjoyed the time with volunteers and I also got a kick out of seeing people’s pleasure at finding a good bargain. It felt like a win/win situation. Win for the person purging their home and a win for the person receiving a good deal. We raised just under $1500 that will go towards the patients we love and serve here in our community. There were approximately 20 people that came Friday night to help with setup for Saturday and Saturday my faithful friend and troop member, Natali McCoy met me at the warehouse at 5:30a.m to begin pulling out the goods for the sale. Thank you Natali. It was labor intensive but again, I really enjoyed the time with volunteers. Saturday we had approximately 6-8 people serve during the sale. Joan Watkins set up a fabulous bake sale table. Thank you to everyone who contributed to that as well. It was a fun, full weekend. I look forward to many more opportunities to serve with each of you. Thank you for your continued support of TRF.