Read About It: The Money Savings Program: Laying the Groundwork for a Brighter Future When a Landing Pad Becomes a Launching Pad: Marnie’s Story Marnie [actual name withheld] was sixty-something years old and living on pure survival mode. Not long after her 30-year-marriage ended, she was broke. It was a long way from the life […]
Russ’s Money Saving Story
Read About It: The Money Savings Program: Laying the Groundwork for a Brighter Future “When I Was Sick” – A Father Finds a Way to Be Near His Hospitalized Daughter “When you’re at the Mission, and you start working while you’re there, they really bend over backwards to help you—even more than they already do […]
A Gift of Time – Jennifer’s Money Savings Story
Read About It: The Money Savings Program: Laying the Groundwork for a Brighter Future A Gift of Time – Jennifer’s Money Saving Story Jennifer came to the Mission destitute and with a serious medical condition. After her mom died on her first day on the job, Jennifer had no one left…no family at all. Soon […]
Castaway: Marie’s Story
Her Mexican mother abandoned her at birth. Her American one was distant and cold. Not surprisingly, Marie grew up feeling emotionally shipwrecked…with no land in sight to call home. Marie Vogt was raised in Juarez, Mexico…for all of three weeks. In January of 1967, just as she was reaching the cooing and lifting-her-head-up milestone, […]
