Children Support Services requested urgent support for a large family with a massive house/garden clearance of accumulated black bin bags, broken furniture, wood, bikes and appliances in order to move away from undesirable influences on their teenage children to a safer environment.
Prayers for suitable ‘household bubble’ teams & Covid-safe logistics were answered in the course of a week! With the dump waste permit secured, the first team skilfully packed the van with all outside rubbish in less than two hours and headed off to the dump. On moving day, a few weeks later, (and with different time-givers) the broken furniture was removed from inside the old house, and new furniture (beds/sofas etc) was delivered to the waiting father in the new property.
Relief! for a formidable task that the family couldn’t undertake alone due to expense, stress and the mental health suffered by the mother after a Covid-bereavement in the family and a sick daughter due for a serious operation. Summing up her relief, it was brilliantly expressed by what she said to one of our team as they shut the doors on a van load of rubbish and furniture.
Pause for Thanksgiving
This clearance project has given them a fresh start, with lovely beds for the teenagers (rather than mattresses on the floor), a new double bed and bedding instead of a broken one for the parents, two lovely new sofas and the ease of beginning to settle into a new home and community without all the mess and clutter that had built up around them and kept the teenagers from fleeing the home. We are so pleased to enable our time-givers to practically love and serve this lovely family. Thank you Lord!