Dear Friend,

Last Saturday, 64 neighbors joined us at Isaiah's – many recovering from addiction and rebuilding their lives in sober living homes. Two gave their lives to Christ and will be baptized soon! This is why your support matters.

Our Year-End Goals

$35,000 dollars needed to keep our ministry thriving through year-end.

Our Year-End Goals: $35,000 Total

We're raising funds for two critical needs:

1. General Operating Expenses: $15,000 To keep our ministry thriving through year-end:

• Cover essential operating costs

• Maintain daily programs and services

• Respond to emergency assistance requests

• Ensure no neighbor is turned away

2. Holiday Helping Hands Project: $20,000 To bring hope and practical help to 100+ families this holiday season:

• Emergency utility assistance to prevent shutoffs

• Food and groceries for holiday meals

• Warm clothing and blankets for winter

• Gifts for children who would otherwise go without

• Rent assistance to prevent holiday evictions

Note: Corporate Sponsorships are welcome.

What We Do: Isaiah's provides essential discipleship and life services to our most vulnerable neighbors:

• Weekly breakfast, Bible study, and lunch programs

• Basic needs: showers, laundry, food pantry, furniture assistance

• Life skills training and spiritual mentorship

• Community service partner for Tulsa County

• Monthly birthday celebrations with gifts and cake

Why Now? Since August, we've barely covered our bills. With no paid staff and hundreds of weekly requests for help, we're stretched thin. Recently, I accidentally missed a text from a mother needing help with her electric bill. When she asked why I "ghosted" her, I was heartbroken. We paid her bill immediately, but it showed me how overwhelmed we've become. The holidays bring even more urgent needs – and we want to say "yes" to every family in crisis.

How Your Gift Makes an Impact:

• $50 provides a week of groceries for a family

• $150 keeps the lights on for a neighbor facing shutoff

• $350 sponsors a complete holiday blessing for one family

• $500 helps a family avoid eviction

• $1,000 covers a week of ministry operations

• $2,500 transforms the holidays for 7 families

• Any amount brings us closer to serving 100+ families

Ways to Give:

• Give Today: Help us reach our $35,000 goal by December 31st

• Designate Your Gift: Choose "General Operations" or "Holiday Helping Hands"

• Monthly Support: Sustaining gifts provide stability into 2025

• Connect Us: Introduce us to foundations or funders

• Visit Us: Join our Homemade Holiday Fundraiser on November 9th, 2-6pm (see attached items available for purchase)

• Share Our Story: Buy our book "Love Goes" on Amazon and leave a review

For 21 years, we've been the ministry that helps "when no other agency can." With your partnership, we can meet these critical needs and ensure 100+ families experience hope and practical love this holiday season.

DONATE NOW : Donate — Isaiah 58 In His Service, Inc.

We can do more. We can do better. Together.

With gratitude and hope,

Deni A. Fholer, LMSW, CCFP
Founder/Executive Director
Isaiah 58, In His Service, Inc.
918-289-0218

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P.S. Every dollar goes directly to ministry for people – we have no paid staff. Whether you give toward operations or Holiday Helping Hands, your gift is a direct investment in transformed lives. Together, we can reach our $35,000 goal and bless 100+ families this Christmas!

I park about a block away from our post office. Walks are one of my favorite things but due to the health of Isaiah’s people, I drive and sit in doctor’s offices and ER’s a lot. I squeeze steps in whenever I can. Getting the mail is one of those times.

God has strategically placed acorn trees along that trek. I will zig and zag and sidestep and jump onto acorns. The crack of those acorns just meets a need. It’s comforting, but sometimes they’re still too green. When I stomp on one, instead of crumbling like a pecan, it drives deep into the sole of my foot—like stepping on an aggie marble. Youch!

I had a banner night recently, I cracked 4 in a row and in my exhilaration, my dad flashed across my mind. It’s October, football has started. I heard that crack and I was transported back to my parent’s home on a Sunday afternoon. In his recliner, my dad holds a rugged wooden bowl carved from bark, the nutcracker and pick close by, tools of the trade. The bowl is full of pecans and he’s barefooted and taste testing nuts as he yells at Dallas after another fumble…

To be honest, I’ve been missing Dad and Mom. There was something sacred about ‘going home’ to their house on a Sunday afternoon. When my world was full of chaos, their house was a safe haven. I didn’t have to be in charge or responsible for anything, except plugging in the coffee pot. That I could handle.

The life my parents lived is gone. No more $15,000 mortgages, gas for .32, or a cart load of groceries for 50 bucks. And then there was Independence Day—fireworks in the backyard, homemade ice cream churning in the kitchen, croquet in neenee’s yard, and aunts, uncles, and cousins gathered around, devouring Dad’s legendary grilled ribs. Those were the days…so thankful.

We were by no means rich or even middle class, but we had everything we needed, delicious food, handmade clothes (okay maybe not those overalls), my own bedroom and even cool things like a minibike. Dad and Mom were incredibly generous too, you know?

I’ve asked God to break my heart for what breaks His. Countless families in our community are unable to experience life’s simple joys, like I did, because they’re struggling just to meet their most basic needs. This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be.

Mom and Dad would be heartbroken to see how things have changed.

“Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible… we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.” — Harry Chapin

We can do more. We can do better. Together.

LOVE GOES

Deni Fholer

The things that cross your mind after you lose someone dear to you. For the longest time we drove her everywhere. Then one day she whipped around in an old beat-up van with Little (her dog) in her lap. “Since when do you drive?” “Always.” “I hope those dents aren’t from a wounded pedestrian.” “I only use concrete as bumpers.”

We laughed until she tooted.

We celebrated her 85th birthday for 4 years. She told me she was approaching a milestone birthday so we gathered the gang and went to Panera to celebrate. When we lit the candles she had tears in her eyes, “I’ve never celebrated with my own birthday cake before.”

Two days later she looked at her driver’s license and said, “I found out I’m 81.”

So we continued celebrating 85 every year since. She was the matriarch of Isaiah’s and one of our senior support squad. She loved to drive around (with me driving) and point out where she used to live and walk the 2 miles to and from work every day.

She loved to go out and eat beans and rice, biscuits and gravy, and grilled cheese but mostly she loved to drink coffee. In Creek she was, Coffee In Hand Always. These past few months the Apple Barrel in west Tulsa was her favorite place to go. Whether it was the two of us or many of us, we always clinked our cups and said “Cheers” before we took our first sip.

Diana wanted to be remembered by her love for Jesus. The Bible says that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and no one gets to the Father except through Him. John 14:6

There’s a lot of noise, confusion and deceit in the world today. So maybe you aren’t sure what is true about Jesus and heaven. “While Jesus hung on the cross, a criminal guilty of his crimes hung beside him and said, ‘Jesus remember me when You come into your kingdom.’ Jesus answered him, ‘I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.’ Luke 23:42-43

You don’t have to clean up your language, your mind or your actions before you get to know Jesus. Just believe and repent and as your relationship with Jesus grows then you will work together in becoming the person God created to be. “The old things pass away, behold all things are new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 Love, Diana

We will have a service for Diana at Isaiah’s

October 24, 2025 at 2pm at 5903 E. 9th St. Tulsa OK 74112

We will celebrate her life on earth and her homecoming with Jesus.

We can do more. We can do better. Together.

LOVE GOES

Deni Fholer