My family and I saw a woman whose car was broke down in Pensacola on May 15. It was about 8:30 P.m. and we went over to see if we could help. When we got there there was actually a whole family there and the husband was trying to fix the battery and alternator. The family was from Turkey and have only been in the country for about a month. They were at the toy store to get their son a birthday present. The husband was the only one who spoke english and said they had been out there for three hours and no one stopped to help them. We got his car running well enough to get them home that night, which is in Crestview Florida. The husband told me that he had a very good job in Turkey but got the opportunity to bring his family to the U.S. and has not had any success finding a job. I gave him my phone number when we left them and he called me the Friday before the stimulus was given and wanted to come over to my house and thank us for helping them. When the money was handed out my whole family knew what we were going to do with it. They came over the next week and had dinner with us and visited with us for an evening and after we ate we gave them the money in the envelope. His wife started to cry and he said that he would not have taken the money if I had tried to give it to him on the street. I told him that God instructed me to help him and he received it thanking God. He has since then found a job in security at a large hotel in Destin and his family has hope in a new country where he wanted his children to be blessed.

- Doug D.