PK Outreach

10/04/2025

Still could use some help with this family. Thank you to each of you that responded.

10/01/2025

Although I retired several years ago I am still working with numerous families in our community. I was contacted yesterday by a social worker in district 7 that is working with a family that as of today will be homeless, and we are trying to come up with the funds to put them in a motel for numerous weeks, until they can get on their feet. The father is disabled and the mother works 2 jobs and they have a son in high school and one in junior high school that also are in need of clothes and shoes and underwear. I also have their sizes. One of the boys is autistic and has severe emotional issues. If anyone can help, please let me know. I also have cash app $pkohelps or PayPal [email protected]. If you want to help, you can call me 864-706-9470. Thanks.

11/05/2024

Several folks responded to this and for some reason it is not showing up anymore. If you responded, please contact me again. I am trying to figure out how many kids I can sponsor.

10/22/2024

08/02/2024

I have numerous kids needing help with school clothes and shoes. If you could help, please text me at 864-706-9470. Thanks.

07/20/2024

Although I officially have retired, I am still and will probably always ( as long as I am able) be ministering to several families when God opens that door. Today was one of those God moments for sure. Many of you may remember Ed that I ministered to for several years and still see every so often, mostly because he walks up and down Hwy 9 going to work. He has been living in his broken down car for a couple of years in someone's back yard. Myself and numerous other folks really did a lot to help him, but unfortunately things didn't work out and we all had to finally walk away. It was really, really difficult for me, but I knew we had to. Today I was meeting Ted's niece at QT/85 in Boiling Springs and of all people, Ed was there standing right in front of her car. She is moving from Powdersville to Lake Wylie and Ted and the boys had been packing her up all day. Ed walked up with that big smile of his and told me he had just gotten word that he had been offered a basement apt to live in. He was so excited but I knew he had nothing. The items he needed were the exact items that our niece had left to donate. Coincidence? I think not! God knows my heart and although we all poured a lot of time, love and effort into Ed in the past, He also knew that Ed should be given another chance to have a place to live....I am just blessed to be able to help out. I love when God intervenes like this.

03/21/2024

Well....I know I am retired, BUT when God calls you to ministry, your calling to help doesn't just stop. I am working with 2 families that have financial needs if anyone would like to help. You can call me it 706-9470.

02/02/2024

Update and Huge Praise!!! As I shared last night about getting a call from the District 6 liaison about a family she was working with that had just been evicted and were literally out on the streets with nowhere to go and she had tried everything she knew to get help and called me to see if there was anything that I could do to help, although she knew I had retired the end of December, but felt led to call me anyway. I just really felt God calling me to "step out of retirement" to help. Shortly after I shared I had several people that responded and wanted to help. So today with their help we were able to commit to pay another week for each one of the rooms, they had to get two rooms because the motel would not allow six people in one room. And possibly might have enough for the third week which would take them up to the point of them getting their taxes back and at that time be able to find another place to live. Ted also went today and picked up the brand new beds that the district had just given them 3 weeks ago so they would not be thrown away and we will store them until they find another home. When I went to pick up the money from one of the people that wanted to help pay a week, she had put extra in there and I was going to use that for food for the family. I had visited with the family this morning and felt really led to go to Walmart on the east side of town and get food for this family because their food stamps did not start until the end of next week. I knew in my head how much I had to spend and I had said well if I go over I will just put the extra in myself. So my buggy is full and I'm starting to check out at the self checkout when the sweet lady comes over that works there and says let me get you another buggy so you don't have to put these bags in the floor until you get everything out of your buggy and I told her that would be awesome. She noticed that I was not double bagging and noticed that a couple of the bags were tearing and said let's double bag these and I laughingly said that would be great because this is all going to a family living in a motel and I sure don't want their food rolling around out the parking lot. She asked me if I was from a church and I shared with her that I had had a Ministry for almost 30 years and had retired at the end of December but I felt God had called me to get involved with this family today and that's why I was doing what I was doing. At this point she said would you please let me use my debit card and pay for all of this food to which I responded you do not have to do that and she said no I want to do this for this family. She said my husband died in August and I have really not gotten back in church yet and I have not been tithing and I want to buy this food for this family. I was amazed and we both look at each other and said there's no doubt God put us together today in order for this to happen. I was able to spend the extra to go by Bojangles and get this family a big family pack of hot food so they could have some hot food for supper and possibly lunch tomorrow. When I got back to the motel I had all six of them to come out to my van and shared what God had just done and share my testimony with them of what God had done in my life when he saved me. They were so grateful and so appreciative and recognized that God had worked all of this out for them. I cannot begin to tell you what the last 24 hours has meant to me to see that God is letting me know that although I may be officially retired that he is not finished working through me in situations like this. I know it will not be a full-time commitment but I am open to wherever he leads me and I cannot express the joy that it was and being able to be a part of what God did in this family's life with the help of the precious women that reached out and helped, and you know who you are and I pray that God will bring big blessings on your life for your willingness to always step up and help when I ask.

02/02/2024

I know.....I am "retired"....but as I continue to receive calls and request, most I have been able to share of my retirement. But...today I received a call from a District 6 social worker that I helped with Christmas Sponsorship. She was working with a family of six who were literally being put on the sidewalk as we spoke and had absolutely nowhere to go. This included two 3-year-old children a nine year old child and another teenager. Neither of us could turn our backs on this precious family so we have been working together all day and were able to get them in a motel and pay an Uber to get them there because they did not even have a car. I was only able to pay for one week and after that the social worker is not sure what will happen with them. They are waiting to get their tax refund and at that time will be able to find housing hopefully but that's about 3 weeks off. If anyone is willing to help please let me know. This transition of retiring has not been easy for me especially when cases like this come up.

01/01/2024

As I begin 2024 in a totally new season of life, life without ministering thru PK Outreach, I feel a bit lost. Not sure what retirement will look like for me, but I know that the past 28 1\2 years of ministry have been one of the biggest blessings of my life. When God called me into ministry many, many years ago, I had no idea how long it would last or what it would look like. I never could have imagined the highs, the lows, the tears, the burdens, the laughs, the heartaches, the long days, the worrying about children in danger, the miracles I got to witness, being a part of women and children coming to know and serve the Lord, late night phone calls from young moms ready to give up, talking to single dads about their role as a father, nights crying with a mom who felt all alone and scared of the future.....I could go on and on. But thru it all, God was faithful!! First He blessed me with a husband that not only supported my calling, but was my biggest cheerleader and helper all these years and children and grandchildren that also were behind me 100%. Grandsons that got involved helping their Papa and me pick up and deliver items to needy families. He used so many of you to make this ministry possible( you know who you are) and once again I appreciate you and feel such gratitude for your part in making a desire in my heart become reality. God put amazing people in my life, amazing churches that supported me, pastors that believed in what I was doing, businessmen that walked beside me financially, Circle 555 and SC Christian Foundation that supported me not only financially for years thru grants, but prayer also, individuals that gave throughout the years when asked or gave because God lead them to, folks that donated items that made a difference in a family's life, cars that were donated that literally changed a person's life, prayer warriors that covered me in prayer, amazing board members that were always willing to listen and give godly advice...the blessings have been too many to count...but each one made it all possible. I praise God for the call on my life, for carrying me thru times when I had doubts and wondered what I was doing, for meeting every single need by using faithful people that believed in the ministry. I have friends that I would have never met that will forever be in my life. Again, not sure what the future holds, but I definitely know who holds my future. God bless each of you and Happy New Year!!