Stories of Kindness from Around the World

You join Facebook and " friend" your old classmates. You might not ever talk about anything serious with them but they are there. You read their status, laugh at their jokes, groan at the corny quotes, or wish them a happy birthday.  Until last week, that is....

A classmate from twenty years ago was one of my Facebook  friends. A few random comments he made gave me the impression that something was wrong so I prodded him to call me.  He did call and I found out that that he, his wife and eight children had just moved into a cheap motel room.  He had used the very last of their money to pay for a week's stay there. He had no job and they had lost their home.

What do you do in a situation like that?  I am just me, with my own family, my own worries, not enough money to save them and not enough room in my own home to offer them shelter... butI decided to make it my mission to try and help him.

My sister and I bought a few groceries and took them to the motel room. She even made them a spaghetti dinner and took it along on one of our visits.  During those times I decided to do something a bit extreme...  I messaged all of our mutual Facebook friends from our graduating class.

What happened next was just miraculous! I had listed all the major things this family needed; a job, a home, money, food, clothes - and happiness! Soon I was getting responses. Classmates, some of whom had previously only been barely cordial started calling me for info or sending donations for the family.

Someone told me they knew someone else in a nearby town with an empty house. My Facebook friend and his beautiful family  live there now. Homeless on Saturday, a new home on Tuesday! Incredible!  The home owners donated the house rent free, only asking for them to pay utilities and mow the lawn when it needed to be done. 

Soon this family had volunteers from our class delivering furniture, groceries, toys, even job applications!

There are still many things we are hoping for this family. They have yet to get a vehicle for work and he hasn't found a job, but everyone is wearing smiles now... And, let me tell you, the hugs from his lovely children speak louder than any words ever could!

I became the bridge between this family's needs and people who could help them. It still amazes me how wonderfully it all worked out, just because of little old me and my Facebook friends! God works His wonders through us, even when we may not have any idea what we are doing!