Hope is a Phone Call Away
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Article By Michelle Karas
Six years ago, single mother Kat Lilley unexpectedly found herself in a Colorado Springs homeless shelter, along with her six children.
“… I had made the choice to ask for help, the choice to let ‘them’ know that my family had nowhere to go, regardless of consequence. I had decided that if my children, my reason for breathing, were taken from me, they were better off without me; I couldn’t provide for their basic needs. I cried, ashamed to be sleeping in a church, dependent on others for food, safety, and shelter…,” Lilley wrote on the Family Promise website.
She had, in the blink of an eye, lost her home and found herself sleeping in the family van with her children. She needed help.
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