Fire Destroys May Helen Johnson’s Home
May Helen pictured here during our 2010 Christmas Eve Festival.
Since November the 15th, our beloved Board Member, Vestry Member, Acolyte Warden, Mrs. Claus and chef for our Community Suppers, Parenting Classes, 7th Heaven Camp and Sunday Breakfasts, Mrs. May Helen Johnson, has be sleeping with her grown daughter Alison and 7 grandchildren in a conference room at Emmaus House.
One of the most open hearted and long-time members of the Emmaus House and diocesan family, May Helen’s home (where all 9 lived) and all its contents were destroyed by an electrical fire.
We have at long last found a reasonably priced and reasonably large rental home about 3 miles from Peoplestown. The lease is signed and the 9 mattresses and 1 folding table were moved in today, December 19th.
Can you help make this house a home in time for Christmas? Can you help the adults and school children get back and forth to work and school? Here’s what we need.
If you know someone who could donate or sell (at a very low cost) a minivan, please telephone The Rev. Claiborne Jones at 404.525.5948. This is an urgent need. If you have household items you could donate, please email Claiborne at claibornejones@emmaushouse.org. She will send you a list of needed items as of this date and help you connect with Mrs. Johnson for deliveries.
We are sorry for the delay in getting this notice out, but it seemed important to have a house to take things to, and to know far it would be from schools and jobs, before asking you to do whatever you can. Monetary contributions are always welcomed and can be made online by clicking on the donate button to the right or mailed to 1017 Hank Aaron Drive SW, Atlanta,GA 30315 and marked “For Johnson Fund.”
Merry Christmas and many thanks.
The Rev. E. Claiborne Jones
Director and Vicar
