Money. Money. Money.
*sigh*
Kathy is our bookkeeper.
She enters all the in-coming and out-going funds for the CDCA on the
accounting system in English and again in Spanish.
She provides us with weekly financial summaries so we can talk about
what we are to do that week and next month.
Since the civil unrest of 2018, the CDCA’s finances have
been stretched to their limit*. Where we
see it weekly, Kathy sees it daily.
Kathy wakes up in the morning and with her Book of Common Prayer,
she has her daily worship time. During
that time and at night, one of the requests she makes in her prayers is that
the CDCA will get the funds we need to operate.
Kathy is 70 years old and the stress of worrying about how
we are going to meet our bills and pay rolls is wearing. When any of the rest of us have filled in for
Kathy when she has been gone, we slowly go crazy seeing all the money just go
out and out for need after need.
She has
done remarkably well for the last 25 years.
Recently, Diana Ibarra began working in the office aiding Kathy; she has helped
tremendously. Cheerful Diana taking over so many tasks has freed Kathy up to do the books in a timely
fashion. Diana also sees the money go
out the door for needs but does not feel the immense responsibility to make
sure there is actually money there for the needs.
None of us like to fund-raise. We all hate searching for funding, constantly
asking people for donations, coming up with new ways to get people to give,
etc., but we do what we can with what we have and wait for our weekly meetings
to see how well people responded. Thank
God, for me, it is only once a week!
-Kathleen
*If you can help with ongoing costs of the clinic, or for other needs, that would be wonderful! You can give here: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/jhc-cdca
