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Last week I posted on Facebook and Twitter about the daughter of the former preacher where my wife and I used to attend church. She has been in the hospital for over a week now and is nowhere near being “out of the woods”.

She contracted the flu, and later went into sepsis, sending her to the hospital. Her heart, lungs and kidneys began shutting down. Over the next few days, her blood pressure dropped dangerously low and could only be maintained with several risky medications. She has also been on a breathing machine because she cannot breathe on her own. Then her hands and feet began to turn black due to lack of circulation. It has been a very up and down hour to hour situation.

If you would, take a few minutes to read some of the updates on her CarePages Site. You can avoid registration by using the login name Jenny@Bizaillion.com and password Friends. The family has been updating very regularly. The comments and posts show how many people are praying and keeping vigil for Jenny.

The following is a letter from one of the Shepherds at the Decatur Church of Christ where Jenny’s father is the preacher. If you are able to help, please do. Also repost this on Facebook and Twitter. I was without health insurance for over two years and it is by the grace of God that nothing serious happened to me. I cannot imagine the stress financial worry would add on top of the medical situation of a loved one.

The past several days the burden of this hospital bill has been weighing on my heart. David & Jenny have no medical insurance. When they first arrived, the hospital assured David not worry about how they would pay for her stay and that the quality of Jenny’s care would in no way be diminished due to this fact. We have been earnestly praying for a week for God to miraculously heal Jenny.

It is obvious that He has heard our leading by the fact that she is alive right now. Wouldn’t it be an incredible witness to this world for the 4,000 plus people who have been praying to each contribute $100? Let’s challenge ourselves, be diligent, and act quickly to ease this burden from the family. We can return this hospital’s generosity to the Bizaillion family by helping take care of this debt. The hospital didn’t hesitate to take care of her, let’s not hesitate in giving sacrificially. Please give something even if its not $100. Our goal is $500,000!

Here’s the simple process: Go to the Gregg Pearson Foundation at www.greggpearson.org, click on “donate”, during the donation process click on “special instructions” and type “Jenny Bizaillion”. 100% of what is donated will be given to David and Jenny. The GPF is a tax deductible 501c3 organization.

From Russ Hamilton, Shepherd at Decatur Church of Christ

There are also links below this (and every) post to make it easy to send it to others.

Please read this post by Trey Morgan and then send a few dollars. He posted back in November about the Adventures in Mission Team that made the trip to Honduras and went to the dump to hand out sandwiches. They make and handout up to 3,200 sandwiched a day! Here is the really shocking part. $20 per day will feed everyone at the dump for the day and $80 will take care of them for an entire week!

From the most recent post:

“If you have read my blog in the past month, you know I’ve asked that this Tuesday you consider making a donation to the “Dump Fund” to help feed the people who live and eat at the dump. Although I haven’t officially asked for money yet, a few of you have already sent some. You guys are amazing. In fact, one person has contacted me and said they’d match dollar for dollar anything given over $2500 (up to $2500). That means if we raise $5000, this very kind person will write us a check for $2500 to make our total $7500. I’m praying that this happens. This Tuesday I’ll give you all the details how you can give, and please understand that 100% of what you give will go to feed hungry people.”

I am always on the lookout for a good bargain. When I buy something at the store, I actually look at the unit pricing on the various packaging sizes. Generally, bigger quantities are less than individual packages. A 3 liter bottle of Dr. Pepper is going to be cheaper than if you bought the same amount packaged in individual cans.

Well today we were at “The” discount store and I was looking at deodorant. Since I have been considering trying deodorant for sometime (I heard that it is good stuff), I thought I would see how much the stuff costs. They offer individual packages and a “Special Value” twin pack, presumably to save you money. (I guess really smelly people could also leave them banded together for twice as much coverage per swipe.)

To make a long story short, I was amused by the Special Value packaging. Take a look…

Now I am no math genius, so I need some help. Can someone explain the special value to me? I can buy one for $1.97 or two for $4.46? Needless to say I bought two for $3.94., thus forgoing the opportunity to pay an extra $0.52. Look at these things when you shop!

FYI – if you think that $0.52 isn’t much consider this: That money invested at an annual 8% return over 30 years is $5.23. That is money straight to retirement. Imagine if you could do that two or three times a week for the next 30 years! (Said with a wee bit of sarcasm.)