Knoxville, TN. Thank You to Eco Clean Carpet Solutions!

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Eco Clean Carpet Solutions of Knoxville TN!

I personally used to manage and also work as a technician for this company.

The owner is STA’s Registered Agent for Knoxville TN.

Since 2008, i cannot begin to tell you how helpful Eco Clean Carpet Solutions and the Owner, David Gargan has been to STA.

He provided me employment from 2007-2009, a wage which allowed my wife and i to spend money to help others.

He has helped make multiple trips to pick up donations for us and get them to storage.

He has made contact on behalf of STA with people i requested.

He has given to STA in many ways.

I personally simply wanted to Thank him, Eco Clean Carpet Solutions

Eco Clean Carpet Solutions is: 

Your carpet, fabric, hard surface, Oriental rug and air cleaning specialists in the
Knoxville, Tennessee area for over 20 years.

Please visit their website at:  
http://www.knoxclean.com/
 or give them a call at  865-691-5556

Highest Quality Cleaning Care in Knoxville TN Area! 

Is this a sales pitch for them??

IT SURE IS!   :-))!

Thank you for ALL your Help David!!

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A Call for Assistance from Massachusetts….

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This happens quite often….

Calls for assistance from across the United States

In the last couple weeks we have received calls from Alabama from a young man in a shelter there, from a young man in North Carolina in a situation with his father.

Today we received a call from a female in Massachusetts who is in urgent need for a Greyhound Bus ticket to go from Massachusetts to Ohio.  STA would also like to place her in a comfortable and safe Hotel.  La Quinta or Super 8 hotels usually work pretty well.  

English: Greyhound bus stopping at a rest area

English: Greyhound bus stopping at a rest area (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

100% goes to her need.

Round Trip Greyhound Bus Ticket = $225.40 online rate

Hotel/Motel Rooms range from $57 – $75

3 days of Hotel/Motel funds then needed approx: $250 on the high end.

3 days of Meals Funds for this female at $16/day:  $48.00

TOTAL FUNDS NEEDED PLEASE:  $523.00

**This is needed ASAP so we may secure the best rate for the Greyhound Bus Ticket.

***Please place a note on your donation of:  ”MASS-OH BUS”

(PAYPAL SECURE & Tax deductible under the 501c3 Tax Code)

She is a Domestic Abuse Victim and needs to get to Ohio to go to court against her abuser and she desperately wants to be there.

She has called over 20 places for assistance and been turned away from them all.  I believe her because we have seen this for many years.  

STA will always at least try to help the person that calls with some ideas, direction and or contact information.  Today i sat with her on the phone looking up places in her city for her to call in Massachusetts.

One of them, a womens center “might” be able to help her with a ticket.

STA, would like to take the “might be able to help” OUT of the equation and make it a YES We Can Help.

This is needed ASAP so we may secure the best rate for the Greyhound Bus Ticket.

Will You help STA make this happen??

Please make a $10 Donation now OR any amount you are comfortable with!  It All Adds Up together!

***Please place a note on your donation of:  ”MASS-OH BUS”

Thank You!

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Bringing Hope Provided By Jesus Christ to Those In Need

(PAYPAL SECURE & Tax deductible under the 501c3 Tax Code)

Straight Ahead Outreach(Taking Back Your Life) Inc. is an IRS registered 501c3 Nonprofit Public Charity, Incorporated in both Tennessee and Florida

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$1005 Raised to Help an Army Combat Veteran!! Whooo Hoooo!!

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$1005 Raised to Help an Army Combat Veteran!! Whooo Hoooo!!

Our Goal is $3000

That means we are 1/3 of the way!!

100% of the funds are going to this specific need.

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(PayPal Secure and Tax-Deductible - EIN# 27-1534584)

THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!THANK YOU!!THANK YOU!!THANK YOU!!THANK YOU!!

As of 5/30/2013 he is….. Formerly Homeless!!

another Whoooo Hooooo!!!

YOU are Part of making a major Impact on this Veterans Life.  In more ways then one.  YOU are a part of helping him to live in his new home, a place he refers to as…..

His “Healing Place” 

You are a part of that.  That is HUGE!

$1005 Raised!!!
Funds Disbursements
Total out of funds Raised = $1005 $1,005
Lot Rent for June (includes water, lawn service & trash) $508.00
Electricity Deposit (Duke Energy) $29.95
Application fee for Mobile home Park $50.00
LockSet for entry door (New) $31.49
Glass for window (Used) $10.00
Water Heater (New from Home Depot) $279.00
Water Heater fittings, Piping & Install labor $175.00
Groceries/Meals $77.19
Meals $18.15
Universal Remote control for Bens TV (Dollar General) $5.35
Smoke Alarm (New from Walmart) $13.00
Kitchen sink strainer & Aerator (New from Walmart) $6.00
DVD player (New from Kmart) $30.00
Toaster ( Thrift Store) $5.29
Gasoline in the STA Mobile Crisis Outreach van for the Veterans transportation and the needs of this specific project. $171.00
Grand Total (-$404.00 Negative total covered by Pat & Lance’s Personal funds)  
  -$404.42

Please Donate Now to help us reach our Total Goal of $3000

We are $1995.00 away!

With those funds, STA plans to do the following:

1)  $508 to Pay one more months lot rent (July) for this U.S. Army Combat Veteran

  2)  $96 to pay his electricity for June & July.

  3)  $400 to purchase a new window type Air Conditioner/Heater

  4)  $500 to re-furbish his deck and build a railing or screen it in.

  6)  $200 to purchase a nice used stove in great condition

  7)  $200 to purchase groceries for him

  8)  $50 to buy paint & paint the inside & parts of the outside of his Mobile Home

  9)  $41 for miscellaneous cleaning supplies, pots and pans etc.

Please DONATE $10 Now!  You may donate any amount.

He served to make You and I safe. For us to be able to live the lives we do today.

So, Pretty Please!…Help us return the favor, lets keep Him safe in his forever home.

**Please Donate Now.  The Donate button below is a specific button for this Veteran and his needs.

Thank You!

Doing It Simply, Simply Doing It

Bringing Hope Provided By Jesus Christ to Those In Need

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(PayPal Secure and Tax-Deductible – EIN# 27-1534584)

Straight Ahead Outreach(Taking Back Your Life) Inc. is an IRS registered 501c3 Nonprofit Public Charity Incorporated in both Tennessee and Florida

I personally Thank You ALL.  

Free free to call  me with any questions: 727-288-1545

Lance Greene/Founder

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LET'S ROLL!!

LET’S ROLL!!

In The Clear!! SUCCESS!! Whoooo Hooooo!!

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Yes!!  We are in the Clear!!  Whooo Hoooo!!!

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We are in the Clear on paying the June lot rent for our 66 year old U.S. Army Combat Veteran of the Vietnam War.  

Formerly Homeless as of 5/30/2013!!  Another Whooo Hooo!!

Late last night STA received a very generous Donation of $250 from a repeat donor!  This same donor helped STA Prevent Street Homelessness for a family of 8 back in February. 

That donation when added to the funds already on hand from other donors of $258 completes the balance we needed to pay the June lot rent!

THANK YOU!!

THANK YOU to ALL who have Donated to help us help this Veteran!

This is Extremely exciting!

We cannot Thank You ALL enough!  

Now that we are in the clear on this Veterans lot rent, STA can concentrate on the other miscellaneous repairs and upgrades needed for this Veterans new home and concentrate on letting him heal.

He calls his new home….His “Healing Place”

***These are the things we would like to accomplish now which were planned in our original Goal of raising $3000.00:

1)  A new window style Air Conditioner.

2)  A nice Used Stove

3)  Repair/Secure Shower piping

4)  Re-do his decking and build a privacy rail or screen it in.

5)  Paint the inside and outside areas

6)  Repair gutters

7)  Pay his Electricity Bill

8)  Obtain Cable TV service for him

9)  Purchase some pots and pans etc. (he does not need a lot)

10)  Purchase more groceries for him to last him a month or so.  (he receives $16 in food stamps)

11)  Pay his lot rent for one more month, the month of July.  Why?  Simply, So he can have some fun.  He has been homeless much to much to long and deserves a little break.

He gave his life by serving as a Combat Veteran in the Vietnam War, life as you and i know it today.  His service and the service of many others like him is what made it possible for you and i to live the lives we are living right now.

We believe he deserves a little something special….Yes?

Let’s ALL give him the Heroes Welcome he and his Military Brothers should have received in the first place.

DONATE Now to help this Combat Veteran have a forever comfortable home.

You may read more about him and see a few pictures HERE.

***For as long as we receive donations on his behalf, STA will continue to pay his lot rent or electricity, do repairs and upgrades to his home, or whatever is needed.   Ongoing donations can easily be made below by clicking on the DONATE Button which is PayPal Secure or by going to our dedicated page for this Veteran HERE.  (same link as above)

Thank You!

Doing It Simply, Simply Doing It

Bringing Hope Provided By Jesus Christ to Those In Need

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Straight Ahead Outreach(Taking Back Your Life) Inc. is an IRS registered 501c3 Nonprofit Public Charity and is Incorporated in both Tennessee and Florida

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On the War path

Almost in the Clear…..Deadline is Tomorrow

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What is He doing?  He is “Taking Back His Life”

Since August 24th, 2012  STA has been assisting in one way or another, a 66 year old U.S. Army Combat Veteran of the Vietnam War.

He has been homeless for a very very long time.  Much too long.

It has been a very difficult long road since August 24th, 2012.

We are almost in the Clear but not quite.

Ok, i admit it, i am panicking a bit, but trying to rely on Jesus to come through and move you to Donate to this Veterans needs.

We are short by $250.00 to pay the first month of his lot rent for this month of June.  We need to come up with the funds by tomorrow, Thursday 6/13/2013.

To make a very long story short….on this 5/30/2013 STA got him into a place of his own in a very quiet and peaceful, 55+ mobile home park here in Clearwater, FL.   In a small 55+ community where the park manager is simply awesome!

You can read more HERE and in other blogs i have written here on the website.  There are numerous ones.

With the help of some priceless friends of STA, we have been raising funds here to help this veteran settle into his new home and do required repairs, make needed purchases for his home and safety,  furnish his home and provide him some groceries.

STA has done a great deal of work already, but we are not through.

We have a Total Goal of: $3000

We have raised: $685.00 of that goal from generous donors from across the country and into the UK. In addition to that $685 raised, my wife and i put in $175 of our personal funds.

***The goal is to prevent this U.S. Army Combat Veteran from accepting funds from a different source which if he did, would disqualify him from future very valuable VASH benefits he is entitled to as a Veteran.

In addition, we wanted to cover the several repairs needed of which we have already done the first major one, being a new water heater and install. We also plan on covering the first two months of his lot rent so he could relax a bit and concentrate on living, learning how to have a life and build a life.

With Donations, We plan on painting the inside of his home, re-doing his deck outside and building a privacy rail or screened in porch.  Painting his new concrete stairs a neighbor of ours brought to him yesterday.  Thank you Keith! Painting the brick garden area outside and repairing his gutters.

We have picked up and brought him a really nice refrigerator donated by my wifes work, Concurrent Technologies Corporation of Largo, FL.

We would like to purchase also a used stove for him.

We need more funds, more donations to do all this work and more.  We know he will need more groceries.

***UPDATE:  As of late last night, 6-12-2013 we received a generous donation of $250 from a kind soul who has donated to STA before.  We cannot Thank him enough.   We are now In The Clear!  Now we can concentrate on other repairs and upgrades as possible but are no longer in panic mode. 

THANK YOU to ALL who have been Donating to this need!!

MOST IMPORTANT

Most important though is the $250 we are short on to cover his lot rent of $508 for this month of June, the first month he is in his new home.   We already have $258 sitting in the bank from generous donors, waiting for the $250 needed to pay the rest of the lot rent.

Will You please help us complete the rent with a donation Now?

100% of the donations are going to this need.  Not even a dime of the donations have gone to gasoline on this need.  And believe me the driving we have done is extensive for this need.

Please!  Make a Donation Now!

$10 – $25 – $100 or the whole $250 please!  Yep, we are desperate.

Our deadline is tomorrow on this Veterans Lot rent.  He takes over next month.

The Donate button is a specific dedicated button to this Veterans Need.

Thank You!

Doing It Simply, Simply Doing It

Bringing Hope Provided By Jesus Christ to Those In Need

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(PayPal Secure and Tax-Deductible – EIN# 27-1534584)

Straight Ahead Outreach(Taking Back Your Life) Inc. is an IRS registered 501c3 Nonprofit Public Charity and is Incorporated in both Tennessee and Florida

 

He’s a Hippie, Drifting in 2013……

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He’s a Hippie, Drifting in 2013……

In our daily trips here and there and doing what we do here at STA….

We have been seeing a homeless man with his dog for the last week or so…

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We always feel badly when we see this as the dog may need food or water or rest just as bad or even more then the human it is with.

I came back and told Pat that i was going to put something together to bring to him and his dog.

Pat put together a hot meatloaf sandwich and scalloped potatoes for the man. We also brought him water, juice, fruit, utensils, a roll of summer sausage and a few other items.  I put together a large bag of dog treats, a water/food bowl and dog food for his dog.

I went to look for him and found him and his dog laying down under the Gulf to Bay Blvd and McMullen Booth overpass taking a nap here in Clearwater, FL.

I introduced myself and asked him if there was anything i could do for him or if he needed anything.

He stated….food for me?  He had food for his dog there already.

I advised him we had food for him in the van.  He asked if i could bring him close to a Walmart.  I said sure.

So we loaded him, the dog and his belongings into our Mobile Crisis Outreach van.  As you will see below his dog made himself very comfortable :-))!

MC sat next to me.  He navigated  :-))!

MC Navigating to Walmart

The homeless man proceeded to tell me he was a Hippie and that he was trying to get to Murfeesboro, TN to go to the Hippie Fest there.

I dropped him by the nearest Walmart so he could get some needed supplies.

Off they went….

$250 Short for formerly homeless Veterans rent…

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***UPDATE:  As of late last night, 6-12-2013 we received a generous donation of $250 from a kind soul who has donated to STA before.  We cannot Thank him enough.   We are now In The Clear!  Now we can concentrate on other repairs and upgrades as possible but are no longer in panic mode. 

THANK YOU to ALL who have been Donating to this need!!

$250 Short for formerly homeless Veterans lot rent…

STA is trying to cover the June Lot rent for our 66 year old U.S. Army Combat Veterans new home.  We are doing this to prevent him from accepting a program from a different organization that would disqualify him for VASH benefits for life!  He is very close to doing it as he is afraid of being homeless again.  

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We are only $250 away.  Please help us prevent this Veteran from jeopardizing his future VASH benefits eligibility.

You can read more HERE on his new home.

This is needed by tomorrow morning please.  

Will you help us help him please?  

Will you make a donation now please?

$5.00? – $10.00? – $25.00?

Pretty Please?

Thank You!

Doing It Simply, Simply Doing It

Bringing Hope Provided By Jesus Christ to Those In Need

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(PayPal Secure and Tax-Deductible – EIN# 27-1534584)

Straight Ahead Outreach(Taking Back Your Life) Inc. is Incorporated in both Tennessee and Florida

an IRS registered 501c3 Nonprofit Public Charity

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“I am having a blast over here”…..

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“I am having a blast over here”…..

It is raining pretty good here today….

I just got off the phone with our 66 year old Army Veteran.  He can be very hilarious.

I am giving our 66 year old formerly homeless (as of 5/30/2013) U.S. Army Combat Veteran a little space the last two days.  It gives him time to unwind and relax and it gives me time to catch up on numerous other tasks and people.  It has been a really rough couple weeks for him.  Lots going on with moving in, making repairs and all to his new forever home.

You can read a bit more about him HERE

STA brought him  a television, VCR, DVD, and my personal stereo that my wife Pat bought for me for my birthday a while back.  It’s a nice compact stereo with great sound, CD player and cassette player.  He did not want it at first.  Then, when he and i went to our storage facility to get his TV, he asked if he could have the stereo i mentioned to him.  I stated absolutely.

Now he can listen to his Bible tapes he got at a Thrift Store we went to in Largo.

He started telling me how thrilled he was the headphones he had fit not only in his tiny transistor style radio but also in the TV and his cell phone.

He was extremely excited because he does not want to have the volume up to loud on the TV, stereo etc.

So i asked him…do the headphones fit on the stereo??

In the most upbeat voice i have heard from him in a while he boomed….

“Oh Yeah yeah ,,,its great!  Yes they fit in the stereo too and i can listen to my Bible tapes and CD’s!!…..I am having a BLAST over here!”

I laughed out loud very loudly.

To use my wife’s words, He sounded like a kid in a candy store! LOL! 

I am still smiling from hearing him.

Tears one day…heavy laughter the next….that’s how it goes.

I am thankful Jesus Christ helped me to locate a home for this Army Veteran straight down the street from where my wife and i live..it’s only 8 blocks away from our driveway.  That includes 3 blocks of driving through our mobile home park to get out to the street!  :-))! 

I can’t tell you how good it was to hear the excitement in his voice when he said…

“I am having a BLAST over here!”

He hasn’t had a Blast in over 40 years

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If you would like to be a part in helping us provide ongoing support to this 66 year old U.S. Army Combat Veteran of the Vietnam War, I ask you please to make a Donation.

You will not be disappointed.

Please make a $10.00 Donation Now….or any amount you are comfortable with.  It all adds up together.

The button below is a dedicated Donate button for this specific need. 

Thank You!

Doing It Simply, Simply Doing It

Bringing Hope Provided By Jesus Christ to Those In Need

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(PayPal Secure and Tax-Deductible – EIN# 27-1534584)

Straight Ahead Outreach(Taking Back Your Life) Inc. is Incorporated in both Tennessee and Florida

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Still Short of Our Goal…..$395 needed by 6/12/2013

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Priceless Blessings from friends of STA….

In our efforts to help set up and make required repairs to the recently obtained Mobile Home in a really nice, quiet little 55+ community in Clearwater, FL…the home of a very recently formerly homeless U.S. Army Combat Veteran of the Vietnam War as of 5/30/2013…STA has had the fortune of receiving blessings from numerous people to help raise funds to to help with this need. 

He moved in on 5/30/2013 – You may go HERE to read more about him on our dedicated page for his specific need.

With the help of some truly awesome people known and unknown, along with friends and relatives, STA has been able to put together….

$685.00  Awesome!!   Thank you ALL!!

ALL of it, every penny…100% has gone to this U.S. Army Combat Veteran’s current need.

***Please Help us! We are still $395.00  short of our minimum Goal to pay his Lot rent and Water Bill for this Month of June. We need to obtain that amount by no later then this Thursday 6/13/2013 per the Mobile Home Park manager.***  The Veteran will begin paying his lot rent, water bill and electricity in July.  (We may still need to help a bit at times)

Our original Goal was a Total of $3000.00 in order to pay the lot rent and do several needed repairs and more.  We want this new home to be awesome for him.  

That leaves us short by: $2315.00   We had wanted to cover his lot rent for two months originally.  These funds would let us do that and maybe more.  We need to redo the floor of his deck and put up a railing for some privacy, maybe screen it in even.  Some required repairs are needed in the bathroom for the sink faucet and shower head piping.  Repairs are needed to the gutters.  We would like to paint his new home inside and out for him.

We obtained this Mobile Home for this Army Combat Veteran but there are several repairs which need to be done in order to make it comfortable for him.  What He deserves.

Some of the repairs are required by the park.  Those have been completed with the funds already raised, the $685.00.  They included a new water heater and the installation costs, paying his application fee,  paying the deposit for his Electricity service and getting the electricity turned on obtaining furnishings, groceries and more.

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The greatest part about all this is after 9 months of paying his lot rent and water bill (Total of $508 per month) on time he will own his mobile home free and clear.  They will turn over the title to him!

Awesome!  He has never had his own place.

Help STA keep him in there and set it up so he can settle into what this 66 year old U.S. Army Combat Veteran calls…

His “Healing Place”

Please make a $10.00 Donation Now. It all adds up together to make one HUGE Impact!

100%, every penny will go to this specific need.

Thank You!

Doing It Simply, Simply Doing It

Bringing Hope Provided By Jesus Christ to Those In Need

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               (PayPal Secure and Tax-Deductible – EIN# 27-1534584)

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Thank You Countryside Glass & Mirror of Dunedin, Florida!

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Thank You Countryside Glass & Mirror of Dunedin, Florida!

You are a Class Act!

Today, at 8:30am I received what i will call “World Class Customer Service.”  First from the pleasant lady that helped me when i entered your store to the excellent service from your shop personnel who trimmed some glass for me, right then and there on the spot.

 You may never know the value of your excellent service we received from your shop and the above and beyond Customer Service of your pleasant front end personnel behind the counter.  Her kind service to me was priceless for me as it made my already stressful day very pleasant.

Your Service this morning made my job much easier.  I have been driving all over between Largo, Clearwater and Dunedin to get the glass cut which you all helped me with.  This morning your people handled it with no hesitation, no excuses and nothing but Class.

I Thank You!

What you did today is even better because you actually helped someone else much more important then i was as your customer.

You helped us trim two pieces of jalousie glass which belong in the window of a mobile home we obtained and are helping with repairs on for a very recently formerly homeless 66 year old U.S. Army Combat Veteran of the Vietnam War.  Now he will be able to turn his A/C on… :-))!

 Why am i making this such a big deal?  Because for the last 4 days i have gone to 5 different places to try and get 1/8″ trimmed off that glass!

SHEESH!  It was driving me crazy.  Everywhere i went there was always an excuse as to why they could not do it.

Your people handled it without hesitation.  They were awesome.  Refreshing to see their level of Customer Service.

PLUS, the price they charged me was unbeatable!  :-))!

Thank you so very much for your Service Today 6-11-2013, you made my day much more pleasant.

:-))!

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