Trials for Hope Blog

We are in need of A LOT of pasta !!!  We just got done making many food bags and our supply of pasta is out!  We're asking for some help from others who might have extra to help us help others!! 

Thank You to Nehemiah Mission for offering a new family to us " Medina UCC ", who came to help us today.  This was a great family collaboration that helped us to help us make food bags for many this week.  We Thank You for walking with us and hope to see you again! 

Thank You to Julie Adams and family for making a clothing donation in honor of their mother in law Dorthy Bonasera.  Our hope in honoring her is to donate some of the clothing to Hitchcock House and then Edna House to help ladies and our community even a little!  Our condolences and prayers to you and your family in this time. 

Thank You for the communities of: Sobriety First Spiritual Solutions Holy Angels Church Riderz of the Reaper  for walking with us as well as our team whose been working so hard!!   

We celebrate the day walking with our team along with; Riche, Adrian, Ryan, Cory, from The Lantern Center for Recovery, Scott from Lakewood UMC, and Alice who helped to offer a great evening for others.   Last night  Last night we have been touched by Pearl Road UMC with a continued group of people and family whose Love over flows. As we visited with our family outside and in it was a wonderful experience!  We also need to share a Thank You to Mary from St. Dominic's Church who helped someone walk with us easier!!!  In catching up with other Thank You's, we need to also make sure we mention Onix Outreach for all that they do for the community as well as ours!   In closing with Thank you's The City Mission for men and women continue to be so very kind!! We Thank you!!! 

We wanted to say a Thank You to Dan S. and Lantern Movers for helping us and going above and beyond in helping with a situation!!! Please call them: https://www.facebook.com/LanternMovers/ They did a great job today!!!! 

Months ago an idea was shared through Pastor Laura with Lakewood United Methodist and a woman named Sue from Grant Elementary to us about helping Children and Hunger. The Food bank stresses that 1 out of every 5 Children do not have enough to eat... In other countries it's one out of every one. We're so touched to be able to walk with; Pastor Laura, Sue, Grant, and Cleveland's Food Bank in helping some families live a little better.. There's such a difference in " surviving and living", and intellectually it's very easy to say... well sure... . It's so very different when it's you personally. To not know how long  the food you bought will last, and have no money to freely choose what you'd like to eat or to choose what item you'd like to bathe with... So many luxuries that can be taken for granted. When your food insecure you have choices, although if you don't know how to spice or sweeten something up you might not eat.... We'

                                            Gifts  In doing Trials for Hope one of the biggest honor's is seeing that God placed you with an idea and not only does what you do touch another, the honor is seeing another touched and transformed by humility.  One of the biggest gifts is seeing not only another changed, to see how someone your feeling called to help have hope.  We at Trials for Hope are so truly touched to be a little part of so many groups who go out or have a heart and a service to touch another whose voice isn't heard.  So many groups in Cleveland have their arms open and are touching and saving lives, from what started as an idea and they followed!! Mother Teresa talks about : Mother Teresa Quotes . " We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the  ocean . But the  ocean  would be less because of that missing drop." We celebrate all of the groups and non profits and others whose showing up to help another!!