You don’t know the difference breakfast can make.

Jeremy and Laurie Skaggs learned that the hard way after living every parent’s nightmare earlier this year. Their son, Hayden, was on his way home from college to enjoy the summer and celebrate his sister’s high school graduation on May 10th, when suddenly, the app they used to track his journey showed him stopped on I-44.

What they initially thought was a glitch in the app ended up being their worst nightmare: he was in a terrible accident and needed emergency surgery. Jeremy and Laurie rushed to St. Louis from Dallas, Texas, sleeping on the cold tile floor of the ICU so they could be with Hayden.

In the midst of the hardest time of their lives, HavenHouse gave them hope.

The Skaggs traded the cold, tile floor for a warm bed, a community of support, and a place to sit and process what they were living through. They were able to sit together over breakfast every morning, process what was happening, and plan for the next steps.

The respite Jeremy and Laurie received energized Hayden, helping him move from the hospital to rehab, and now back home.

HavenHouse donors gave the Skaggs family hope - now, we’re counting on you to do the same for other families in need of medical services.

“I would love for everyone to experience the hospitality without having to go through what we went through,” said Laurie. “From the beginning, [HavenHouse] gave us time to process, decompress and understand the massive amount of information we were receiving. Breakfast sounds so trivial, but it was so important. To be able to sit down with each other and have a meal - for us, that was huge.”

Will you join us and provide hope, support - and yes, breakfast - to a family like the Skaggs?

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