Melissa Northern
5-18-06
I was reading the story Making A Difference by Kathy Stephens and I was amazed with her story. Kathy and her husband Mike decided to sale their house, moves, and volunteer for CAP. What a life change. What good-hearted people they are.
Kathy and Mike moved into a volunteer house with other people. The house had to decide on how to spend 500 dollars on a project that everybody agreed upon. A lady by the name of Lana had contacted Kathy and was telling her how she broke her legs and wasn’t able to get in her trailer. Lana needed a ramp to get in her trailer and didn’t have the funds to build one.
Kathy thought that Lana’s ramp would be great way to spend the houses money. When Kathy talked it over with the house members they agreed with her and they purchased the lumber for Lana. Lana already had a carpenter to build the ramps for her, but after they purchased the lumber the carpenter had quit. What a mess they were in now.
Kathy once again talked to the house and her husband and they came up with the ideal that they could build the ramps themselves. Mike had a lot of construction experience and they thought the rest of them witch was four ladies could be his crew.
On a hot summer day they sat out to build some ramps. They all took apart on making the ramps. It was a hard job and the persevered until the job was done. Lana couldn’t be any happier. What good people came to her in a time of need? People that didn’t get paid to work in the hot sun, people who gave their time up to help her, and people who didn’t it from the bottoms of their heart.
You don’t meet people everyday like Mike and Kathy. They are wonderful people. If we had more people like them the world would be a better place.