Note from Ruth Maus, Marian Clinic

I sent out a small email in September asking for friends' help in securing personal hygiene supplies to give to our patients who have none. We have quite a small distribution list of almost all local residents, so imagine my surprise when over the next week I began receiving phone calls from far-away cities inquiring how to get these donated toiletry supplies to us. It turns out that one of those on our email list is The American Medical Women's Association in Philadelphia, an organization that gives us a small grant every year. Unbeknownst to me, the AMWA re-sent my email to their national distribution list!

Since then we have received many generous boxes of the personal hygiene supplies - far more than we ever dreamed. All are being put to good use with our medical and dental patients, grouped into kits that we call "blessing bags" and distributed for free. To our kind and generous friends in Topeka, including individuals, churches, hospital employees, government agency employees, and others, thank you so much for your ongoing support, without which we could not continue to operate. To our new friends in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Philadelphia, and Provo, and especially to the AMWA, thank you for opening your hearts to strangers in the Midwest. Together ALL of these gifts benefit and bless those who truly need them.

We are a faith-based organization; we believe this is a miracle. It was as if my original email was a packet of seeds that got scattered all over the country to take root in the hearts of those who are compassionate. God bless you all. God bless you all.

Read the article about the donations from the Topeka Capital Journal here.