Hi everyone,
We our hoping all of you have had a Merry Christmas and a Happy start to the New Year and got to spend time with your families and loved ones. We can’t believe its 2020, where did 2019 go? Time seems to be flying by fast and we are helping more and more of Gods children. We have never turned away one worthy person that needed our help.
It is so sad to say but there are so many families out there without heat, electric, water or even somewhere to lay their heads. We had 2 veterans we helped that were living out of their vehicles. At this time of the year, it is too cold to live out of a vehicle. We worked with other agency’s in the area and now these veterans have a warm, safe place to live. We are sad knowing what these veterans sacrificed for us to live in the country we do. THANK YOU TO ALL THE VETERANS out there that protect us to make our country the land of the FREE, God bless all of you!
We would like to thank all the volunteers that help with the food distribution. If any one would like to help with distributing the food, they can come to the Charitable Deeds building @260 High Point Road, Knox Pa 16232 on the dates listed above or if you would like to make a monetary donation to help with the cost of the food you can send to the above address and put in memo “food pantry”.
If you or someone you know that lives in Clarion or Forest county’s needs help with food, please call 814-797-0286 and we can register for food.
We would also like to thank Bonnie Slaughenhaupt, Ruby Mays, and Shirley Heath for their time helping the families financially each Monday. Without our Charitable Deeds family, we would never be able to help the number of families we do. And without all you wonderful individuals that donate financially all we do would not be possible. We believe that the Good Lord has sent these people to us for help.
We can help families only one time in 12 months. Some of the stories we get from some of these families are so sad- it makes us feel so good to help them. Some are too proud to except help. For example: We helped a single mother with a young daughter where the husband left. The mother works, but with all her bills she was not able to give her daughter anything for Christmas. We went through and picked out 4 to 5 gifts for her daughter from the Christmas presents that were collected by ABATE. We were also able to give her $200.00, to help with her bills. We do not know who she is, this name was given to us anonymously and a friend took the presents to them. These are the families we really like to help because they are so grateful.
I wish each and everyone of you could see the joy this brings to help someone. When you help someone, it is the best feeling you could have. Don’t get me wrong it is not always cookies and cream … but when that time comes that we help and they are crying and hugging us, thanking us for the help … it makes it all worth it. We are proud to be a part of Charitable Deeds and everyone that has helped to make Charitable Deeds what it is today.
Let’s all stop a minute and pray for those on our prayer chain and even the ones that aren’t on it. LORD, please touch these people and help them with whatever they may be dealing. In your name we pray, amen. Pray to the Good Lord each night and put your problems in his hands and he will guide you in the right direction.
That’s all for now – we hope you all had a Happy holiday season and have a wonderful 2020 year.
God bless you all!
John Kerle & Bobbi Wolfgong
We our hoping all of you have had a Merry Christmas and a Happy start to the New Year and got to spend time with your families and loved ones. We can’t believe its 2020, where did 2019 go? Time seems to be flying by fast and we are helping more and more of Gods children. We have never turned away one worthy person that needed our help.
It is so sad to say but there are so many families out there without heat, electric, water or even somewhere to lay their heads. We had 2 veterans we helped that were living out of their vehicles. At this time of the year, it is too cold to live out of a vehicle. We worked with other agency’s in the area and now these veterans have a warm, safe place to live. We are sad knowing what these veterans sacrificed for us to live in the country we do. THANK YOU TO ALL THE VETERANS out there that protect us to make our country the land of the FREE, God bless all of you!
- We are thankful to have been able to partner with ABATE again this year to help needy parents get presents for their children. We would like to thank Ellie Tolesz and Roxie Zanet for the hours put in handing out these presents. We would also like to thank the Clarion Mall for the use of the space to hand out these gifts.
- We will only be having one Spaghetti dinner this year it will be held on September 12, 2020 at the Wolfs Den. So please mark your calendars. The money raised goes to help the needy in the community with their utility bills. Thank you to the Wolfs Den for letting us have our dinners there.
- We will be partnering with the Pizza pub again this year. The pizza pub donates 600 pepperoni pizza’s yearly. This date for the sales will be April 4th. So please mark your calendars.
- The food bank will be held on these dates: January 23, February 27, March 26, April 23, May 28, June 25, July 23, August 27, September 24, and October 22. The dates for November and December are not on Thursday, change due to the holidays. We will let you know closer to that time.
We would like to thank all the volunteers that help with the food distribution. If any one would like to help with distributing the food, they can come to the Charitable Deeds building @260 High Point Road, Knox Pa 16232 on the dates listed above or if you would like to make a monetary donation to help with the cost of the food you can send to the above address and put in memo “food pantry”.
If you or someone you know that lives in Clarion or Forest county’s needs help with food, please call 814-797-0286 and we can register for food.
- We will continue to have our monthly garage sales in 2020. The dates are as follows: January 16th - 18th, February 20th – 22nd, March 19th – 21st, April 16th -18th, May 21st – 23rd, June 18th - 20th, July 16th – 18th, August 20th – 22nd, September 17th - 19th, October 15th-17th. We are always in need of stoves, refrigerators, washer and dryers, lift chairs etc.. If anyone has items they would like to donate, please call 814-797-0286 leave a message and we will get back to you.
We would also like to thank Bonnie Slaughenhaupt, Ruby Mays, and Shirley Heath for their time helping the families financially each Monday. Without our Charitable Deeds family, we would never be able to help the number of families we do. And without all you wonderful individuals that donate financially all we do would not be possible. We believe that the Good Lord has sent these people to us for help.
We can help families only one time in 12 months. Some of the stories we get from some of these families are so sad- it makes us feel so good to help them. Some are too proud to except help. For example: We helped a single mother with a young daughter where the husband left. The mother works, but with all her bills she was not able to give her daughter anything for Christmas. We went through and picked out 4 to 5 gifts for her daughter from the Christmas presents that were collected by ABATE. We were also able to give her $200.00, to help with her bills. We do not know who she is, this name was given to us anonymously and a friend took the presents to them. These are the families we really like to help because they are so grateful.
I wish each and everyone of you could see the joy this brings to help someone. When you help someone, it is the best feeling you could have. Don’t get me wrong it is not always cookies and cream … but when that time comes that we help and they are crying and hugging us, thanking us for the help … it makes it all worth it. We are proud to be a part of Charitable Deeds and everyone that has helped to make Charitable Deeds what it is today.
Let’s all stop a minute and pray for those on our prayer chain and even the ones that aren’t on it. LORD, please touch these people and help them with whatever they may be dealing. In your name we pray, amen. Pray to the Good Lord each night and put your problems in his hands and he will guide you in the right direction.
That’s all for now – we hope you all had a Happy holiday season and have a wonderful 2020 year.
God bless you all!
John Kerle & Bobbi Wolfgong