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6/21/2017 12:42:38 PM | Hello Everyone, Just dropping in here to write a little about the visit my daughter and I recently had with Mel at his small apartment in Reno. We had an awesome time enjoying Mel’s company, helping with some Foundation needs and just catching up. What always strikes me when I visit Mel is how simply, even austerely he lives. In order to invest more of his resources in the lives and health of all of you, Mel has chosen to live a lifestyle that most of us would consider unacceptable. He has a tremendous amount of expertise and education and could easily get a well-paying job in order to make things easier for himself. He chooses to serve God and those stricken with toxic disease instead. It never ceases to amaze and impress me. Don’t get me wrong, Mel has a pleasant apartment and some lovely furniture. His belongings are all twenty or more years old, but he keeps his place impeccably neat, clean and orderly and truly loves living there. I doubt he will be able to do so much longer since making the rent is already a challenge for him and it will soon be going up. He has been trying to find a cheaper place with no luck. He says he is not worried about it, just trusting God to supply his needs. One morning I went to cook up a meal for the three of us and pulled out a pan from the cupboard. Mel jokingly said “Now don’t you laugh at my pans!”. Laugh? I almost cried. He had four pans that looked to be thirty plus years old. The older style Teflon coating was almost gone and pealing off. Underneath was ancient aluminum. Most of you know that Teflon is a known carcinogen and should not be cooked on even under the best of conditions. Never when it has begun to break down. Aluminum is thought to be a risk factor for several degenerative diseases as well. I told Mel he had to get new pans to protect his own health. He said “ I know they are not great but I won’t get sick and God will protect me so I can keep doing my job.” OK. I am all for trusting the Lord and am learning to do so more each day. Mel challenges me by his example to be less worried and more trusting. Just the same, I got a little bossy with him and said that we WERE getting new pans that very day! He kept saying that he didn’t need them and the money could go to help someone needing the protocol. Everyone reading this who loves Mel will be glad to know that I won the argument that day and my daughter and I took him shopping and bought new pans. I’m grateful to have been able to help but came away saddened that I could not do more. I’d love to be able to write him a check every month so he could have a car and make his rent payment without worry. The truth is that most of us are not able to do that much to help. However, if everyone of us who has been or is being blessed by Mel’s work would take the time to send just five or ten dollars a month to the Foundation or his Go Fund Me account it would make all the difference. It would allow for a small stipend to cover Mel’s basic needs or at least cover the phone bills. Did any of you know that Mel pays the phone bills for all the calls he makes out of his own funds? I saw one of those bills and believe me, my family could not afford to make international calls like that and cover those expenses without breaking our own budget on a monthly basis. I bet a lot of you figure the Foundation pays for the office overhead. Not so. Mel does that. I imagine that some think he has a life outside of the Foundation and the website. Not really. Did you know he recently lost his weekly transportation arrangements and now walks to the grocery store for supplies?. The man is incredibly healthy folks, but he is in his seventies and doesn’t even have the convenience of riding to the store to shop each week. So, forgive me for this long post and semi-rant about Mel’s needs. I hope he doesn’t kill me for being so open with you all about what I saw last week. ;-) He might be a bit embarrassed. We are all family here who have shared a lot over the years. I have never heard him complain. This man, who has shared the most and sacrificed the most; needs our help. Will you please think about what you can do to help? Every little bit helps, large or small one time or semi regular basis, it all will help, the man who has help so many of us! Go Fund Me I‘m confident you will be blessed in return if you support and make possible the awe-inspired recoveries that are happening every day in our little corner of the world. What a miracle this healing community is! We should all be living in a state of amazement every day that this is even possible. Your help will amaze and bless us all. Mel will be blessed too. Lets make it happen. Let's work together to keep this service available in the years to come and to make things easier for our friend and faithful Leader, Mel. God Bless, Deborah B. |
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