May 25, 2006
Bessie Prickett
Making a Difference
Making a Difference was a story about Mike and Kathy Stephens who sold their home in Tennessee to give a year of their life to do volunteer work at CAP in Rockcastle County.
It all started in August 2006 when we found out that each volunteer house has a budget of $500 to spend yearly to do something for the community. We didn’t have much time left, because the fiscal year would soon be up. If we didn’t use the money we would lose it.
I pray to god to help me find someone to help. Then one day Kathy got this phone call, it was a woman, her name was Lana, she told my wife that she was in a farm accident, and had two broken legs. She was very unhappy. She was staying at a friend house and wanted to go home but she couldn’t get into her house because she was in a wheelchair and she didn’t have a ramp. She said, “Can you help me?” This was the answer to Mike prayer.
Mike didn’t think he could get pull this one off because all members of the house had to agree to it and it supposed too involved the member has a whole. But it didn’t, the only involvement was getting the money.
The proposal was approved. The problems were that we were running out of time. We had to act fast. It turn out that Rick, the carpenter wasn’t going to fix the ramp due to the reasons that Lana had someone else to fixed her a temporary ramp. Rick said, “that that his materials was ruined”, For Lana to get someone else to builted it for her.
I went back and told my house member what happen. We all agree to go to Lana house on a Sunday afternoon. We all showed up and we all help and by the end of the day we had the ramp built. You should have seemed Lana face. She was averring enjoyed with excitement.
The moral of the story is to follow your heart. God will help you to achieve your goals if only you take the time to ask him to help guide in the right direction.