Church Initiates Drive to Bless Handicapped Woman
"I don't deserve this. I'm the type of person that makes do with what I have. I never thought God would bless me like this."
(Groom, Texas)?Reporter Jon Mark Beilue, in the Amarillo Globe News, has written a heart-warming story of how the members of First Baptist Church reached out to one Paula Brown, a poor woman wheelchair-bound with muscular dystrophy, by taking up a donation and buying her a new home. (Photo by: Michael Norris-Amarillo Globe News)
Beilue details how and why Brown had endeared herself to the town over the years; her sweet, uncomplaining spirit, her empathy for others, her thankfulness for the cold shack that had been her home for so long.
Troy Ritter, a local farmer and church member, came up with the idea to take a collection to buy Brown a home that the community could fix up for her. To his surprise, the church met the needed funds within the first day. Community businesses donated materials and local volunteers worked furiously to surprise Brown with the finished house by a set date.
When the big day came, one resident yelled through a bullhorn to a stunned Brown, ""Paula, your community loves you. This is for you!"
"You don't know how much this blows me away," said Brown as she wheeled toward her new home. "I don't deserve this. I don't. I'm the type of person that makes do with what I have. I never thought God would bless me like this. I've lived in big towns and small towns, but there's no place like Groom."
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