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Yolanda Sutton-Fisher
REACHING OUT

Back on Her Feet

By David Kithcart
The 700 Club

CBN.com - Today Yolanda Sutton-Fisher is a successful insurance agent, but it wasn’t too long ago that she was working four jobs, struggling just to feed her two children.

It’s not the kind of life Yolanda was used to. Once, she and her husband owned a nice home and had a decent life. But then they decided to leave Chicago and move to Birmingham, Ala.

“He decided me and the kids should go on ahead and that he was going to wait until his job transferred down here,” Yolanda recalls. “I begged him with tears in my eyes, ‘Please don’t do that—don’t separate your family.’ ”

With only $1,200 in her pocket, Yolanda took her children, Joshua and Chloe, to Birmingham to wait for their father to join them. He never came.

Says Yolanda, “We were just hoping and praying, ‘Next week we’ll hear from him. Next week Daddy will come. Next week Daddy will come.’ Three whole months go by, and I had not heard a word from him. When I heard from him, he had sold our house and moved into his own apartment.”

Yolanda was in Birmingham to stay, divorced, with two children and no support, and working around the clock on four jobs. But she just couldn’t make ends meet.

“I just began to say, ‘I can’t handle this. How can I get rid of myself?’ And the Lord plainly told me that I could either lie down and die, or I could get up and live. He said, ‘Look in the face of your children. If something should happen to you, then your kids are orphans.’ That’s what snapped me back to reality.

“Then we had to go on food stamps. That’s when Operation Blessing came in. I found out through the program that they would help single mothers or whoever was in need. There was one time that I didn’t have any money for their back-to-school supplies.”

Helpline Christian Outreach works with Operation Blessing’s Back to School and Bless-a-Child programs.

Operation Blessing Ministry Director Christine Kirkley comments, “Things were really tough for her at that time, so we were able to help her with getting the children the school supplies and clothing they needed for the school year.”

As Yolanda has trusted in the Lord, she has seen blessing after blessing come her way. Yolanda has since re-married and works one job. But she will never forget the role Helpline Christian Outreach and Operation Blessing played in helping her get back on her feet.

“They just gave me a sense of hope,” she explains. “That’s why, to this day, I’m very good friends with a lot of the ladies in Operation Blessing, even though I don’t need the program any more. They’ve given me self esteem. They gave me my dignity back.”

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