Support the Ray Family
Goal:
USD $250,000
Raised:
USD $176,935
Campaign funds will be received by Sarah Ray
Support the Ray Family
Sarah Ray and her four children lost their home in the Eaton Fire. Please help us support them!
Sarah is a Catholic widow and a single mother to Amy, Anna, Clare, and Tyler. Yesterday, due to the howling Santa Ana winds and extremely low moisture levels, the Rays, among many other families, lost their home in Altadena, CA.
Far from being her first tragedy, Sarah is accustomed to loss. Two years ago, just before Christmas 2022, Sarah lost her beloved husband and the father of her children, Casey, after his 16 year battle with brain cancer.
Leading up to Casey's death, and in all the years since, Sarah has been a faith-filled mother and a hardworking teacher who gives everything of herself to her children. While Sarah is blessed with a strong family support system and a community that has walked with her through these difficulties, she's now facing unprecedented financial loss. With so many families suffering tremendously, Sarah needs to reach outside her normal support system for assistance. Can you help?
All donations will go toward: replacing clothes and necessary goods for her family, loss of her income, and anything that will not otherwise be covered by insurance and relief funds. Sarah is grateful for all donations and will be a good steward of the gifts given to her.
Recent Donations
We don’t know each other, I haven’t set foot in LA since August 2000, AWS colleagues I know through our catholic ERG shared your loss. I admire your courage + surrender, as you wrote after Job: joy and suffering are intertwined. Yet I pray God will send an angel ahead of you to anoint your head, overflow your cup, outpoor goodness and mercy (PS 23). Isn’t Psalms the next book after Job?
This Care & Relief Grant is provided by our Charity's Wildfire Relief Fund. We pray that you will continue to find Hope as you press through the difficulties caused by this disaster. May God bless you and continue to provide. Philippians 4:19
I'm a stranger to you - an Auntie of students at St. Monica's. I hope this modest donation helps you be the caring mother that you are as your family mourns this loss and goes through the process of rehousing, rebuilding, and healing. Blessings in Christ, Julia
God bless you and don’t ever give up hope.
Willows Academy is praying for you!
These funds are provided by our "Fund a Grant" program. May God continue to supply all of your needs.
Grace told us about you all. We’re sending this page out to other friends who went to college out East with us. If there’s anything we can do besides financial support, let us know through her.
I hope you get more than you need! I earned this money by selling bracelets I made myself. :)
Sarah, You and your children will be in my prayers. I am a widow myself. My heart goes out to you that you are experiencing this trial in addition to what you've already suffered. May God sustain you and give you all the strength, courage, wisdom, prudence and patience you need!
Updates
Update: a beautiful message from Sarah
January 13th, 2025
From Micaela: I wanted to share a brief message that Sarah shared with our community after receiving more clothes than needed for their family. It's been edited for clarity, but all words are hers:
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"I want to thank everyone who has helped my family. My 5 year old said yesterday, "I know I lost my dad, but I never thought I would lose my house. Mom, what else will we lose?"
As Job said, "The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away, may the name of the Lord be praised." Job was [later] blessed with twice as much as God took. [...]
In this time of great suffering let our joy shine, let us praise His name because those who are suffering for His glory know the truth. The truth is, you cannot have joy without extreme suffering.
Why would you be joyful to get a book if you have too many to count? Why would you say, "This is the greatest day, I have new clothes," if you already had too many to count? Of course, you would not have true joy, you would just be maybe kinda happy for a moment.
My kids were more excited today [to receive an abundance of clothes] than they were on Christmas morning. They were so joyful, laughter filling the rooms. My kids are so blessed to know at such a young age that after suffering comes great joy. And we know we will be suffering. You better believe we will be suffering as we cry for our house and Casey everyday, but we will be living the Ray Way- getting it done with God and Our Blessed Mother by our side.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for bringing joy into our home (truly home is where the heart is) as we march into anther day of suffering, but oh so much joy. The name of the Lord be praised!!!!!!!
God Bless us and I pray we remember Job suffered, but oh the joy he had!!!"
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