Sandra recovers from extreme loss and poverty through the lifeline food distribution center supported by Operation Blessing.
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- [Narrator] The Coronavirus pandemic,
has taken a huge toll on Americans,
both physically, and emotionally.
For Sandra Barfield,
it came after multiple,devastating losses.
- In four and a half years,
I lost my brother, both my sisters,
and my mother,
in the last four and a half years.
That has been really hard.
Then, I started notbeing able to buy food,
because, not many go far enough
to be able to buy groceries.
So, the day that I come over here,
I would say, probably thelowest `that I've been.
I was over on the interstate and I thought
how easy it would be,
just to plow into another car,
and just end it all.
Just end all this pain, all this hurt.
- [Narrator] Then she foundOperation Blessing partner,
the Outreach Center.
Volunteers gave her a warmwelcome when she arrived.
- They just kinda started talking to me,
and I was squalid.
I was crying and I said I'm so broken.
I can't even begin to tell you
how broken I am and how numb I am,
and they both said,
"Could we pray with you?"
It felt like I wascleansed, like I was reborn.
That was the day of my healing.
I didn't really know what love was,
I didn't really knowthat there was a people
that could love you unconditionally,
and give people food, good food,
I mean, really good food.
Then all of a sudden I had enough money,
to pay all the bills.
I was able to catch the bills
that, I just kept saying,
"Jesus, I can't thank you enough.
"I can't thank you enough."
- [Narrator] Sandra,is especially thankful,
to the partners of Operation Blessing.
- God, is so good.
He's blessed this people,elated on their hearts,
to be able to help people like me.
I've never felt so much love.
I don't feel alone, anymore.
I appreciate them, morethan they'll ever know,
and God's gonna bless them beyond belief.