Word On The Street

Our Dear friend Tom is indoors! We met Tom back in June of 2015 living outdoors and panhandling off the interstate. Its been an up and down journey with our friend but we kept pushing in by showing him unconditional love whether it came through clothing, food or medical attention with Dr. Lehmann. Tom is a very resilient individual who was determined to live out his existence outdoors. Tom is a survivor and had himself set up with a generator, shelter and all the things to live in the woods. In late fall his shelter was exposed and visible due to the fact that the Trees lost there leaves. A State D.O.T worker came across his campsite and reached out to IMFK to see if we were aware of the individual. They were concerned for his safety now that his camp was exposed to motorist on the interstate. We approached Tom at that time to reconsider housing options, he agreed and the journey started back in October. Tom moved his campsite deeper into the woods to be safe from others. Kat (IMFK Care Manager) did all the housing paperwork with Tom and added him to the housing list. Tom was finally matched with a Provider in April and received his keys to his own apartment yesterday! It has been 6 years in the making which is a long time but we always need to wait for our friends to be ready. Building Relationships allows us to continue the visits with our friends so that when they finally become ready we are standing right in front of them when their surrender moment happens. With your continued support Sous Chef  days like this would not be possible. 

Thank You 

John, Leigh Ann and the IMFK Team

Investing in our friends who are making strides is very important when assisting individuals who have done a 180 degree turn in life. Kdog going on 5 months of sobriety has been a beautiful thing to watch. He is now sober in his own housing and giving back to his community. Today he is doing some scraping of our IMFK store front getting it ready for primer and some fresh paint. We surprised him with this new bike so he can get around town to appointments as well as being able to visit us at IMFK. This bike was given to us over a year ago by a Sous Chef who overcame his own addiction. He wanted us to be able to give it to someone who was making a positive change. Well we are blessed to be able to be a blessing to Kdog

Investing in our friends who are making strides is very important when assisting individuals who have done a 180 degree turn in life. Kdog going on 5 months of sobriety has been a beautiful thing to watch. He is now sober in his own housing and giving back to his community. Today he is doing some scraping of our IMFK store front getting it ready for primer and some fresh paint. We surprised him with this new bike so he can get around town to appointments as well as being able to visit us at IMFK. This bike was given to us over a year ago by a Sous Chef who overcame his own addiction. He wanted us to be able to give it to someone who was making a positive change. Well we are blessed to be able to be a blessing to Kdog, check out the video

Visiting our friends were they are at is an important part of what we do. We were able to connect our friend with Dr. Lehmann who does House Calls to the Homeless. Doc was able to listen to our friend and his need. Doc was able to call in some prescriptions for him while we were able to feed him and cloth him. We were able to get him reconnected with Veteran services for housing and we are committed to assist him in this journey for housing. The awesome connection here is that JD (IMFK Care Manager) is a former Marine who is loving on our friend who also was a former Marine, they speak the same language.

We met Kdog in March of 2015 when he was homeless and panhandling on Park Street by Destiny USA. Our relationship started with a lunch and unconditional Love. Kdog allowed us to interview him this week and wanted to share his story and thank all of you for believing in him.

Sous Chefs transformations like this are made possible by your continued financial support. On behalf of our IMFK Team we say thank you

John and Leigh Ann