09/13/2025
I received a call 2 days ago from a random number, I answered it though. There was a sweet older lady on the other end of the line. To keep her anonymous, we will call her Mary. Mary was 75. She started out by saying that she followed my senate race and that she is sorry that it didn't turn out a win for me. She said that so reluctantly in the since that she was juat trying so hard to be appropriate... Very kind. Mary went on th tell me that she had only just moved to Cherokee County a few weeks ago, that she was relying on the senior tax exemption to handle her property taxes and to her surprise, that's not the case for 5 years after becoming a resident of Cherokee County. She was driven to tears in this discussion but never was petty nor did she sound bitter or entitled. She simply couldn't afford this 20x increase that she is now facing for her new property tax bill. She was not informed during any of the real-estate dealings of this 5 year delay.
I told her that I am well aware of this issue, that I want to do all that I can to help. I began to tell her that while I will see what I can do to make her situation known, and that we have a heavenly Father that looks after us ultimately and that He can and will take care of her. I said to her that by no means does this statement of God relinquish me or our system from hearing her issue, her heart and from doing what I can do to help. I will. But, I stopped myself and asked her "wait, Mary are you saved? Are you a Christ follower?" Mary said "no I am not, I have friends that are". I said "Mary, God is your Father and through Jesus sacrifice, you can be saved and have relationship with Him now". She said "ok, I want that". I went on to pray with Mary and she sincerely prayed with repentance and accepted Jesus as her savior for the 1st time ever at 75 years old. Mary got saved! I made a deal with Mary. I said "Mary, you go call your christ follower friends and tell them what you did today and I will reach out to our government on her behalf about your taxes! She accepted that deal.
I going to go make some calls now on behalf of Mary.