Spring 2020 Pulse

Thank you to all of our sponsors, donors, and participants who helped us raise over $100,000!

VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR Jake Sanford

Jake Sanford is a seventh grader at Forest Hills Central Middle School. He began serving at David’s House as a way to meet the Citizen in Community badge requirement for Boy Scouts. This 8-hour badge goes towards Jake’s goal of becoming an Eagle scout. When asked why David’s House, Jake replied “I chose David’s House because I wanted something different. We do a lot of service projects with other organizations in the community and I wanted to serve a population that no other Scouts had worked with.” Due to Jake’s involvement, his parents and sisters have also come to volunteer at David’s House. His Scout Troop will also be visiting David’s House to volunteer soon. Jake’s favorite memory is the fi rst time he came to David’s House because everyone was so friendly and welcoming. He has learned that even though we all have struggles, together we can do great things! He mentioned, “We are all the same and God loves us all. Joel has taught me to whistle, David has taught me joy, Jimmy taught me kindness and Crystal taught me friendliness.” Thank you to Jake for becoming a part of our family at David’s House .

SPRING GALA

Our annual Spring Gala was scheduled to take place on March 23. Ten days before the scheduled date, we were told to cancel events and we promptly switched to a new date in May. As COVID-19 continued to spread and the stay home order continued to expand we made the diffi cult decision to move our entire event to an online auction/gala. While this presented some challenges, it ended up being fun and hopefully, those who participated felt so as well. Th e result -- Due to the generosity of our sponsors and friends we raised over $100,000. Th is was less than we would have raised had the gala been held in person, but in times of uncertainty, this is a tremendous blessing.

We shared multiple videos online and on our social media pages that were similar to what we would have shared at the Gala. If you haven’t seen them yet, we hope you fi nd time to check them out. We had a wonderful donor give $25,000 as a challenge to all our supporters to join in supporting us during these unique times. We hope you will prayerfully consider if you can join that challenge at this time.