This week God brought us…”Mel”, a small man with a stoop, holding a walking stick, in his early 80s, sporting an extravagant mustache. We had never seen Mel before, but he came in today asking for help paying for his post office box rental. Mel narrated a life that began with domestic abuse from his father as a toddler, then a stepfather who spent decades in a psychiatric hospital. Mel never married or had a family of his own and has lived in the dilapidated house he inherite

This week God brought us…”Sharon”, who evacuated from the Spokane Complex Fire zone with her husband and was able to stay with friends until the evacuation lifted. After being in shock for a few days, she decided that feeling useful was a better way to go through the uncertainty of the disaster and so she said “yes” to a friend who invited her to come along to Catholic Charities to sort and organize the many donations we received after the fires. She continued to come in to h

This week God brought us…”Kim” and “Doug”, who came to the Disaster Assistance Center in the days after the Spokane Complex Fires. Kim and Doug looked and spoke a lot like our usual donor friends, educated and professional. It was easy to consider that they came from a solid middle class life and now found themselves for the first time on the other side of the table, asking for help. At the time we spoke, they did not know if their home was still standing. When they had descr