Pamela Andrews
Is what they say, there is a time a reason a season a lifetime…
In 2012 I started volunteering at the Sheltering Tree…
God placed me at the little 100 year old church around Thanksgiving offering to help Carla and Pastor Beth and I didn’t want to do anything but help them with their purpose…
Two wonderful ladies taking me in and giving me my purpose…
Decided to visit them in a Sunday service and sat by this pretty little lady…
She wasn’t doing very well she relied on a cane and a walker struggled to be well enough to function…
She was had a rare condition and my heart went out to her…
I invited her to join me in the rooms there and she came to help almost daily to start fold and organize…
She grew stronger by the day and finally let the Walker go and that cane go…
Delores became a unstoppable because she had a purpose…
The CareCupboard needed help and she and I would drive to Second Harvest and we would shop and load my truck so high we looked crazy going down US#1…
She and I loved what we did…
Then Soul Café suddenly needed a lead in the kitchen and I let Pastor Beth know that I thought Dolores could do it and with very little hesitation Beth let her take over and she prepare meals every Wednesday for years!!!
She continue to help me in the rooms, doing Outreach, going everywhere helping to get the word out about the Sheltering Tree, raising money, collecting donations, telling everyone about it’s needs, recruiting volunteers and training them for open shelter nights…
Dolores had literally been my right arm arm, my help mate, my copilot… she was unstoppable…
I took her home to Kentucky with me a few times and my family loved her. I actually thought at times they liked her more than me…
On the way back once she said she would love to go to Graceland…
So we made we to go see Elvis Presley.
Our last trip home she ended up in St. Elizabeth hospital where I was born.
Getting her back here was so stressful but on both of us.
She managed to overcome and continued to prepare Wednesday supper in the fellowship hall long after I resigned and we lost each other, as life took me on another path… we entered another season of our lives, though my love for her never waned…
In someways we were super heroes, together… Clothing, feeding, giving a warm place to those who had no place to lay their heads…
I miss her, and a month or so ago I drove by her house, but didn’t stop… I didn’t do what my Father sent me to do…
Last night someone told me she went to heaven…
Oh Dolores, I am so sorry you’re gone, but how wonderful that you are now with Jesus!!!
I am broken hearted that we allowed time to get away from us…
I am so sorry I wasn’t there to hold you through your transition…
I tried to find something written here on Facebook , on SoulCafe, or The Care Cupboard, on the Sheltering 🌳…
I haven’t found anything…
That breaks my heart!!!
No words of condolences for her family, no mention of her service to Bunnell!!!
So here I give her recognition for her time, her talent, and her treasure!!!
You are now in heaven Doll!!!
You were prepared for Angel work there, for all you did here…
I’ll see you again… I know it… I love you💚
