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My Mom, Phyllis Miller, asked me to write a letter for her that she could send to her friends. She is trying to multiply a hundred dollar gift into as much money as possible to help a poor family from Haiti. Since I haven’t written for almost two months, I am taking this opportunity to spread the message. Please read the letter. And, then do something. Send money. Pray. Pass the story on. Just do the next right thing.
Thanks!
-Harv
February 9, 2009
” Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” Thomas Carlyle
Eight days ago I was blessed with a challenge, or challenged with a blessing? My pastor, Reid Robinette, gave me, along with nine others from New Creations Fellowship Church, a hundred dollar bill to use to bless someone else. The object is to get us to see that giving is an opportunity, not an obligation. And, there is strength in numbers.
Reid had inspired us with the story of Emily Diefendorf, a high school student he knew from New York, and her success in providing shoes to children in Zambia. Seems Emily had gone on a missions trip to Africa and was saddened by the fact that so many of the children didn’t have any shoes. She gave her shoes away while she was there and upon returning to the States asked for donations of used shoes to send back to the kids in Africa. She gave because there was an opportunity, not an obligation.
This brings me to the reason for my writing you. After praying, with eyes wide open, for God to reveal to me how I could multiply this $100, I received a phone call from a dear friend. She told me the story she had read in the Baltimore Sun about a 13yr old boy from Haiti that had an operation to remove a grapefruit sized tumor underneath his right arm. The boys name is Osly St. Preux. He and his mother, Natalie Pierre, are here because Dr Mojtaba Gashti and a medical team from Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore made the decision to do what “lies clearly at hand.”
Osly and his mom, who has seven other children besides Osly, are living with Dr Gashti and his family until they return to Haiti. They will be returning to one of the poorest countries in the world. I want to do what I can to make their life a little better with the little I have. I am asking you to join me in this opportunity to give. God allowed Dr Gashti to meet Osly and help save his life. I am asking you to help me help Osly, his mom, Natalie, and his seven siblings to have a little better life upon their return.
I have asked Rhonda Danner and Harvey Miller to help me in this endeavor. You can send any donations to me and I will make sure that the money makes it to Osly.
By the way, Dr Gashti had to wire some money at the last moment because neither Osly or His mom, Natalie, owned a pair of shoes.
My address: Phyllis Miller
3548 Lawndale Rd E
Reisterstown, MD 21136
410-239-8280
Thanks!
Phyllis Miller
link to story in the Baltimore Sun http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.osly01feb01,0,6483396.story?page=1
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