Meet the St. Michael’s Conference! This vibrant conference with 47 members has been led by Joanne and Jack Capies over the past years and serves people in need from 12 different zip codes: All of Gainesville 30501 to 30507 Oakwood 30566 Lula 30554 Gillsville 30543 Clermont 30527 Murrayville 30564 “The Holy Spirit is at work…
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Patricia “All my life I have been a caregiver,” said Patricia. She owned a home with her husband and took care of her daughter who has Asperger’s Syndrome. After her husband’s death 10 years ago, she was exhausted but threw herself into her work as a network operations professional. “I had trouble setting limits”, she…
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The world is changing. Technology has democratized power and influence shifting much of it from political leaders and the media to ordinary citizens armed with nothing more than a cell phone. It has forever changed the way people interact with one another.
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Last week The Atlanta Business Chronicle published an article announcing St. Vincent de Paul Georgia’s capital campaign: Hope Transformed.
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Lauren Most of us dread moving day but Lauren and her two daughters could hardly wait for the day to arrive. They had been living with a family member as Lauren’s paycheck was stretched to the limit with copays and deductibles for her youngest child’s autism care. When they got the chance to move into…
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Serena “I had to choose between my husband and the safety of my children”, says Serena when asked how she became homeless. “It was awful. We were living in my car. I had to take my 3 children into the bathroom at Walmart each morning to wash them up before taking them to school.” During…
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Wendy Wendy is a single mom who called her local conference for help with rent after being let go from her job for excessive absences. Her son had been recently diagnosed with stage 3 cancer and she missed a lot of work taking him for treatments and caring for him at home. Wendy was dealing with…
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Sandra Sandra thought she had “made it”. She was living in a nice apartment with her husband and their two boys. She was proud of their home and the envy of her extended family “back home”. Then her husband left and moved in with another woman and everything fell apart. He refused to pay child…
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Juanita What would you do for your sister? How much would you sacrifice? For Juanita, there is nothing she would not do to take care of her family. Her sister was beaten and left for dead by her husband, who then murdered their youngest child. Juanita still has nightmares about that night and her eyes…
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Henry It was 3:00 on a Saturday afternoon when SVdP received a call from a neighbor who was about to become homeless. Henry had a wife and five children -the youngest was just 10 months old. He had been working in a local restaurant for $12/hour and his wife was unable to work due to…
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