Our Mission:
Angel Interfaith Network (AIN) partners with L.A. County + USC Healthcare Network to meet unique physical and
spiritual needs of patients and families with neighbor to neighbor support. (2/25/08)
“Seek the welfare of the city. . . For in its welfare you will find your welfare.” Jeremiah 29:7
To do this, we:
 Respond quickly with donated funds, goods and services to
 urgent needs identified by health care staff
Bring material support directly to our neighbors’ homes and
stay in touch until the crisis is past
Find local resources to assist with additional needs
Calls for help come from social workers and chaplains at LAC+USC Healthcare Network.
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Help AIN Meet a Holiday Challenge!
 HALLELUJAH! A $3,000 emergency grant from generous friends in the St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Pacific Palisades just arrived. Now we need the rest of our network to join together to MATCH that amount so that AIN can provide at least as many holiday meals as we have in past years in a year of hardship for many.
We believe you can do it.
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A very special THANK YOU to our
'No One is an Island' sponsors!
and
Thanks to all who helped us to net $16,000 this year -- our most successful luncheon ever!
See photos from the luncheon here.
Featured Story:
Whatever ...
Holidays expose the state of our family relationships and the state of the human community. That’s a reason they can be either especially joyous or painful. Last New Year’s Eve AIN Care Coordinator Ann Mills carried a car seat and a baby basket brimming with supplies to a new mother who had just had an emergency C-section. The new mother was having trouble in her marriage and her husband had just moved out. She was in a great deal of physical and emotional pain.
She reported to Ann that when the dad had visited and expressed joy at holding his new son, she responded with a resigned “Whatever.” She had lost hope. When the marriage started out both were eager to face “whatever may come.” Then the husband lost his job and couldn’t find another one as things went from bad to worse. Community and family support systems were lacking. The mother had shut up her heart behind a high wall and resigned herself to “whatever” might come. Life didn’t seem fair, and discouragement was stifling love.
During Ann’s visit the nurse brought the new baby in. Ann held him while the mother looked through the infant care items in the basket. As Ann described where the items came from, the mother ran her fingers over a warm blanket and her face softened. In a moment of silence there was movement to holy ground. She began to talk, hoping that her husband would move back “where he belonged” and would agree to go to a relationship counselor. Ann sensed the mother feeling cautiously for that first rung on the ladder of hope. She listened and prayed silently. Admiring the baby, Ann commended the young mother for her courage and offered a bit of unsolicited advice “from a grandma.”
Two weeks later Ann was surprised when the social worker called and reported to her that the young woman had been touched by her visit. “What happened?,” Ann wondered. The social worker said, “When you showed her the baby carrier and told her it was important to hold her baby, skin to skin, to bond with him; to make him feel secure; and that if she carried him around instead of leaving him in the stroller a lot, muscles would develop more quickly. That really touched her.” At the time, Ann had the sense she wasn’t even listening. Then she remembered telling her that she possessed something more precious to her baby than all the things in the basket. What she needed most was her love. “Don’t be afraid to give it,” Ann suggested. It had been a moment of grace. Ann realized the mother had been so hungry for someone – anyone – to tell her she was capable of being a good mother.
On that New Year’s eve, God’s love broke through walls and defenses and hope was born. We are grateful to all of you who continue helping to make such miracles possible.
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Current Urgent Needs
laundry baskets, bassinets, cribs, sleepers,
baby wipes,
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towels,
twin beds
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