I feel so blessed to do what I do for a living!

The following is an email thanking me and a colleague for helpingthis organization by facilitating them being able to use Verizon Wireless phones for a day so that they could help homeless people in Atlanta call home at Thanksgiving. I feel so blessed to play a small role in such a neat and amazing way.
To God be the glory!
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Thank you all so much for donating the phones for our Chili Outreach. Although we were faced with bad weather, we went forward with the event anyway. Fortunately we secured nine tents that we used to host most of the event. Two of the tents were used as our “call home” station. Thanks to you guy’s sixty seven people got to call home. I think we would have had a lot more, but because of the rain a lot of people just wanted to get in and get out.

There was one really cool story that I wanted to share with you that emerged from the day. One of the many who used the phones was a young man who had not spoken to his mother for quite a long time. He made contact with her using our Verizon Wireless Call Home station. They spent over 45 minutes on the phone. When the conversation was over, he hung up the phone, with a huge ear to ear grin handed it to one of the women working this station, gave her a big bear hug then proceeded to walk to the corner of Ellis Street and Courtland Street and hop in the car with his mother!

Without the phones there would have been no calls. Without this call this family would still be fragmented. Thanks to Verizon wireless and SafeHouse Outreach this young man has been reunited with his family and is now off the streets! Thank you so much for all that Verizon has done for SHO. I look forward to see how our relationship will continue to develop in the future.