Teen Writes Letter to God & Attaches to Balloon. She Never Expected Minister to Find It
Jerome Jones was working at a construction site when he saw the red, pink, and blue mylar balloons deflated and slouched against the ground near a dumpster.
Picking them up to throw them away, he noticed that there was a note attached to the balloons. Penciled handwriting on the crinkled paper revealed a heartfelt plea.
“God help me go to college. God this is me again, please help me get everything I need to leave Wednesday. I love you, Amen.”
Jones was struck by the sincerity and earnestness of the note. A part-time minister himself, he felt called to be God’s answer to this request.
After all, he was the one who found it: out of all the places it could have drifted to and all the hands it could have fallen into, he was the one who’d discovered it.
“It was just there by the dumpster. I walked over and picked it up and there it was,” Jones said, according to WMAZ. “It was God calling me saying, ‘You need to answer this,’ and I did.”
He took the issue to his church in Monticello, Springfield Baptist, and they decided to help the young note-writer out.
Mykehia Curry was just 18 years old and stressed out about the prospect of starting college without a few necessary essentials. The first person in her family to go to college, she didn’t know where the money was going to come from.
She knew, though, that God was powerful and some people are kind, so she sent her note into the sky with her phone number attached and hoped for the best.
“I am the first one in my family to go to college and I’m doing this so my little brother can have a better life,” Curry said. “I have a 7-year-old little brother.”
She was getting ready to leave for Albany State to study nursing when she realized she was missing a minifridge, bedding, and basic school supplies.
The prayer note was a stretch and she knew it. There was no guarantee that anything would come of it, but at the end of her resources herself, she didn’t know what else to do.
“I just thought somebody may pick it up and throw it in the trash,” she admitted.
So when Jones showed up with some of the big-ticket items for the freshman, she was surprised. She asked if he’d really gotten those things for her, and he responded with “God answers prayers, baby.”
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