July 6, 2008
Holly’s Fund - and the story behind it
These are the words of my mother for the site HollysFund.com:
Hi! I’m Heather Sortore. I have known Holly for 5 years. I do Physical Therapy on some of the residents were Holly works. Holly is a med tech with a great deal of responsibility on her job. It is also very physically demanding. she gives residents baths, passes medication, dresses people, undresses people, cleans them up, makes beds, and serves meals. She goes above and beyond the call of duty to help her residents. She loves them all. Holly is a good , hard working woman.
Holly Fannin is also my friend. when I found out she had stage 3 breast cancer my heart went out to her. Holly is a gentle easy going woman that lives on a very modest income. She lives in a trailer with her twin sons that just graduated from high school. The assisted living facility she works for recently sold after she has worked there for eight years. Holly lost 3 weeks of paid vacation. She now has no vacation time and will start chemotherapy treatments after the cancer has been removed from her breast. She is going to try and work during her chemo. She could not afford health insurance since she lives on an income below the poverty level. Even though she frequently works double shifts and many long hours. My friend has had a run of very bad luck.
However, I am convinced God wants me and my son Cody to do what we can to help her. Cody is talented in creating websites so I asked him if he could make a website for Holly. Cody graciously agreed. I thought if enough people see her website and start to pray for healing, financial relief, and God’s grace maybe God would see fit to hear our prayers for Holly. Then I was reminded of the scripture Matthew 18:19 & 20 which says, “Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them.” So please pray with me for Holly and her family. Let’s see God’s mighty hand move on her life.
Holly is a humble woman and when I told her about me and Cody’s plan. She said, “she did not want to burden people with her problems.” I reminded her that we are supposed to carry each others burdens. I said people like to help each other and if enough people gave her even a dollar she might be able to get the rest her body needs while recuperating. She might be able to pay some of her hospital bills. Holly agreed it would not be a bad idea and Mike which was working with her on Independence Day said it would not hurt to let as many people as possible know about her situation.
If God lays it on your heart to pray for Holly, Please Pray. If God lays it on your heart to give to Holly then give as God has blessed You. Thank you for being God’s servant in whatever way possible.
God Bless,
Heather Sortore
I actually wrote the whole site in PHP for a few reasons, 1) obviously so that I could easily edit the pages without opening Vi in SSH, or using FTP to upload and download pages, just go to their edit page online and update them. and 2) if the site is a success I would like to move it over to allowing others in need to create their own donation pages so that they too can get help. I know the community of people online, I’ve worked online for a long time and I’ve seen their generosity, show that generosity to a stranger and lift her up in your prayers, in sharing her story, in donating to her cause. In the Gospel of Mark there’s a story of a paralyzed man who couldn’t go see Jesus where he was teaching, but four of his friends carried him, cut a hole in the roof and lowered him down to Jesus… because of the faith of his friends he was healed. Will you be that friend to Holly?

