Part IV. Narrative: Description of Our Activities, Goals, Objectives
Activities include recently saving a very precious life from the ravaging fatality of suicide, through coming along side of him, with love, counseling, nurturing, and being there and working with Brian, through his crisis intervention program, therapy, clinical help, and above all hope. We have provided shelter, food, and clothing, and in some situations transportation and a lot of consistent guidance. We have also counseled Brian with healthy eating habits, and have provided him with nutritional supplements as well. By holding others publically accountable, Brian is working on freedom from their oppression, doing well on his job, supporting his children, and being a blessing and asset to the community.
Activities have also included sending one of our volunteers out to counsel and pray with Matt who has felt hopeless at times and had also attempted suicide. Matt is now living responsibly, and attending church on a consistent basis. And currently, we are opening our Operation Living Hope facility to an unwed mother who is not fully secure in her current living arrangement.
Our organization has also provided counsel on a consistent basis to a precious woman diagnosed with brain cancer, with little time to live. Jeanie has survived with medical treatment and nutritional help from our organization, love, nurturing, lovely clothing and beautiful coverings for her precious head.
Operation Living Hope has also made at least ten trips to see Jeanie and has sent Chaplains on site to bring her the Gift of Life through the Gospel, We have prayed with Jeanie and mentored and brought comfort to her. The list goes on as expressed in the "Set Free" section of www.olivinghope.orgOur organization has provided clothing, and food to the distressed, suffering and the needy. WE have as Chaplains in all areas of distressful and needy situations, including and not limited to addictions, suicide intervention, brought living hope where there was despair and hopelessness. Ask us directly how we have likely saved taxpayers $40,000 per year in jail expense, and or $12,000 per year in welfare expense, and or at least $36,000 per year social security expense.
Presently we are continuing to guide and counsel and pray with the same above individuals, and provide for their needs, some have become strong enough to join our forces on a part time volunteer basis. Presently we are continuing to uplift, teach, counsel and guide these precious ones as they, continue to bring hope to others as well. and also continue to grow and heal in all areas of their lives.
We have brought counsel, hope and comfort to a woman whose name is Lola, and is living in a very distressful and needy situation. Her husband of many years is being fed through a tube, and will need a great amount of help and hope as well. We had plans to organize and see to it that her and her family has had nutritious meals for two weeks following Nov. 28,th of 2007., which is when she will have a major surgery, on her right shoulder. We also have plans to provide for Christmas presents for her family. Our Chaplains prayed with and counsel her and her family through this difficult time.
Volunteers have been and will continue to be involved in the Hennepin County jail ministry, as well as an Inner City counseling and chaplains ministry. See olivinghope.org to examine ongoing activity in that area.
Operation Living Hope will prepare to have our volunteers speak to large audiences by way of Seminars, about Spiritual issues and this will also include going out on the streets to counsel those who are in need of help. We have plans to send Chaplains to the Crisis Intervention centers, homeless shelters, and homes for battered women and men. We have hope to set up more shelters in the months and years to come. We have plans for our nutritionists to give educational seminars in the same above facilities. We also want to extend our free and very qualified counseling services to any one in need. Donations are accepted from anyone, to further our outreach.
We are working earnestly on completing our web-site, and will use our site and email as one vehicle in helping us to obtain the necessary Grants, and donations. We will actively work in all of the other areas mentioned on our 1023 to help us with the necessary process of obtaining funds. We as Founders, organizers, over-seers, and administrators have donated countless dollars and time to what we feel is a very worthy cause.
The time spent involving just our work alone is approximately seven to seventeen hours per day. Our inner city counselors and Chaplains ,spend between seven and ten hours per day intervening in the lives of others.
We have conducted our activities mostly in Minnesota, but have gone as far as Kansas City Missouri, and California.