STEEN'S TEAM: Steen Miles' Heroes
We're Steen's Team of Heroes, a growing group of friends who love and admire Ollisteen (Davis) Miles. We've come together to join her fight against Stage 3A lung cancer.
At 70 and recently diagnosed, Steen needs lifesaving medical treatments that are out of reach financially. Critical tests and treatment options --- radiation, chemo, immunotherapy, and other desperately needed treatments and medications --- that are massively expensive and often not covered by Medicare nor afforded by Steen's sole income source, Social Security.
With no pension or Medicare gap insurance, our friend is foundering under a sea of medical expenses. In fact, before each critical treatment can begin, her doctors require upfront co-payments --- money she simply does not have.
Together, we want to solve Steen's financial crisis. Calling ourselves Steen's Team, we're a coalition of Steen Miles' friends worldwide, joining together to defray the massive cost of robust cancer care ... care that Steen gravely needs.
So, who are we? The short answer is that we were Indiana school kids when our lives came together with Ollisteen's to form an unbreakable bond of lifelong friendship. We fell in love with Steen's incredibly warm and welcoming smile, her keen intellect, fierce loyalty, deep spirituality, and her amazing and loving heart.
So, how about you? When did Steen touch your life? Did you, too, know Steen in high school or college ... or during her long career in broadcast journalism at WNDU-TV in South Bend, WMAQ radio in Chicago or through Atlanta's WXIA-TV - 11Alive, and Faith in the City? Perhaps, you connected at MARTA ... or during her term as Georgia State Senator. You may have served in professional organizations like the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), The Atlanta Association of Black Journalists, the Atlanta Regional Leadership Institute or any of the dozens of prestigious groups that have awarded Steen their highest honors. Maybe you served together in Jack and Jill or as board members and volunteers. Or perhaps, you've shared prayer and fellowship at Greenforest Community Baptist Church in Decator where she serves as an Associate Minister.
This is the thing ... while Steen's Team members may not know each other, we all sure know Steen ... and we know that she's spent her entire life helping others. Now it's our turn to help her!
Our goal is to raise $28,500 so that Steen can rid herself of the deadly cancer eating away her lungs and lymph nodes. She needs the kind of peace of mind that comes with knowing that good, sound medical treatment is affordable. To get well, Steen needs to be free of financial worry so she can focus on the fight of her life.
Please give your support to Steen now. Your gift can be large or small, one time or some now and some later. Give whatever you can ... whenever you can ... as often as you can. Remember, without our collective quick action, Steen doesn't have alot of time ...
Make a donation today using your credit or debit card. You'll pay no hidden fees and your donation will be lockbox safe, protected by GoFundMe's secure encryption technology. No gift is too small or too large. If you're reluctant to make an online contribution, send a personal check or money order directly to Steen at P.O. Box 360961, Decatur, GA 30036. She'll be deeply grateful.
Sign on to Steen's Team now and share this message with your network of caring friends. If they haven't met Steen yet, tell them what she means to you, and why you need them to help you help Steen.
In whatever way you plan to contribute, it's important for you to join our effort. We can't do it alone. It takes a team of heroes. Steen's Team.
Please make your October Cancer Awareness Month donation to Steen's fight against cancer. You'll be her hero ... and ours!
Thankfully yours,
Steen's Team
Ben Johnson (Upper Marlboro, MD)
Mike Warren (Woodland Hills, CA)
Susan Morrison-Vega (Las Cruces, NM)