Jim Shoffstall

Jim Shoffstall
HelpHOPELive North-Central Kidney Transplant Fund

Family and friends of Jim Shoffstall are raising money to pay for uninsured medical expenses associated with his kidney transplant. Jim lives in Belleville, IL and is being treated at St. Louis University Hospital.

The BAD News: If one kidney is not replaced soon, Jim will spend the rest of his life on dialysis.

The GREAT News: In early September 2008, a close personal friend from church stepped up to the plate and offered to donate her kidney. Nothing short of a miracle in the making, she turned out to be a PERFECT match. After weeks of testing, and months of waiting on the hospital to obtain a surgeon, the transplant is now finally scheduled for Friday, March 13th, 2009.

The CHALLENGE: It has been determined that initial costs for the transplant will exceed $25,000 in addition to life long medications that will exceed several thousand dollars.

Some cool things you may or may not know about Jim…
– Jim is a hard working Christian man, totally devoted to his Church and his family.
– At 40 years old, he is a flight paramedic with ARCH Air Medical Services and has spent his whole life saving lives…now it’s somebody else’s turn to help save his life.
– He is the devoted husband to Cheryl and father to Adam.
– In his spare time, he manages the Christ United Methodist Church Men’s Softball League (with seven teams) as well as coaches one of the softball teams and serves as the team pitcher
Jim has chosen to fundraise with HelpHOPELive in part because HelpHOPELive provides both tax-deductibility and fiscal accountability to his contributors. Contributors can be sure that funds contributed will be used only to pay or reimburse medically-related expenses.

To make a contribution to Jim’s fundraising campaign, click the “contribute now” button at the very bottom of the page below. To email this page directly to others in your community who might wish to learn about Jim’s campaign, click the email button and type in as many email addresses as you wish.

For more information, please contact HelpHOPELive at 800-642-8399.

Thank you for your support and may God Bless you in return for your generosity!

UPCOMING EVENTS:

TRANSPLANT DATE IS SET:
Friday, March 13th, 2009!!!

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UPDATE:
THE GOLF BENEFIT ON 11/15/08 WAS A HUGE SUCCESS!!
THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED. BECAUSE OF YOUR GENEROSITY, WE WERE ABLE TO RAISE ALMOST
$7000!!!

THE QUARTER AUCTION ON 12/5/08 WAS A FANTASTIC EVENT!!
WE WERE ABLE TO RAISE ALOMST $5000!

The All You Can Eat Pancake Breakfast held at Applebees raised almost $2000!!

TO DATE, WE HAVE RAISED $18,000

THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT!!