Core Values of
Heaven-Sent Community Services and Veterans Assistance
Here at Heaven-Sent we are guided by Faith, Compassion, and Integrity, in everything we do.
Dignity and Respect:
Honor the inherent worth of every Veteran, Senior, and Person with Disabilities, and Family Member, treating them with the compassion and God's love they deserve in times of need.
Compassionate Service:
Provide holistic relief through housing, job training, financial aid, peer-to-peer support, and pet therapy, walking alongside individuals on their lifelong journey to independence.
Faith and Hope:
Ground all actions in Christian principles, restoring hope, preventing veteran suicides, and fostering spiritual growth to build resilient communities.
Integrity and Accountability:
Uphold transparency, ethical practices, and confidentiality in all operations, ensuring resources entrusted to the organization serve the mission without retaliation or waste.
Innovation and Empowerment:
Pursue creative solutions like vehicle triage centers and veteran service centers to reduce homelessness, promote self-sufficiency, and empower lives through education and wellness.
Mission Statement
At Heaven-Sent Community Services & Veterans Assistance, Inc., our mission is to prevent and end housing instability, crisis, and isolation among Veterans, Seniors, and Individuals with Disabilities in Central Florida by providing timely access to safe shelter, targeted financial assistance, workforce training, and wraparound peer support. Grounded in Christian principles and evidence-informed practices, we partner with public, private, and faith-based organizations to move each participant from crisis to stability—reducing veteran homelessness and suicide risk, increasing employment and income, and strengthening resilient, connected communities.
Guiding Vision
Heaven-Sent envisions a nation where every veteran, senior, and person with disabilities enjoys safe housing, meaningful work, and a supportive community that prevents hardship and fosters resilience.
Core Values in Action
Uphold dignity and respect in every interaction, treating all with God's love.
Deliver compassionate, holistic services for immediate and sustained recovery.
Infuse faith and hope to build spiritual and emotional strength.
Maintain integrity through ethical, transparent practices.
Drive innovation to empower self-sufficiency and community impact.
We need to help… We just HAVE to help!
It’s in our souls.
Be the LIGHT that helps others see…
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These Are Real People in Our Community In Kissimmee, Fl.
These are the people I’ve met. They live here — in our neighborhoods, in the parking lots behind grocery stores, on the quiet edges of town. They move from place to place, sometimes once a week, just to avoid being told to leave. They exist day in and day out, unseen by most, but they are here.
They need our help — desperately.
So, the next time you walk past an RV, a van, or a car with someone sitting inside, don’t assume they’re just stopping for a moment. That vehicle is their home. Smile. Ask if they’re okay. Offer a meal, a blanket, a kind word, or a helping hand. Let them know they still matter. Because they do it.
And before you scroll past, ask yourself honestly — what if that was me? What if that was my mother shivering through the night in the driver’s seat of an old RV? What if that was my brother, my sister — or a veteran who once stood guard over my freedom?
The veteran you see by the roadside today could’ve served in Iraq, Afghanistan, or somewhere you’ve never heard of — fighting for the very freedoms we enjoy. Now, he fights just to stay warm and keep his dignity. Think about that
Below, you’ll find their stories — the truth I’ve seen with my own eyes.
When Home Becomes a Memory
Picture a little girl brushing her teeth in a gas station bathroom, humming softly so her mother won’t hear her cry. Outside, her brother clutches a small blanket with rocket ships on it — all that’s left of his childhood bed. Their RV sits behind an abandoned grocery store, out of sight, but never out of danger. Their mother watches the rearview mirror, praying no one knocks on the window tonight.
Two blocks away, a veteran named Mike wraps his hands around a faded photo of his fellow soldiers. He fought for a flag now taped to the inside of his van. His dog sleeps beside him, both listening to the wind through the cracked window. Mike doesn’t ask for pity — just a safe place to rest.
And then there’s Mary — seventy-four years old and proud. She lives on a $1,000 a month, parking her old camper under a bridge. She tells herself she’s just “traveling,” but she hasn’t seen a real home in years. Inside her camper, she keeps her blood pressure pills, a small Bible, and a photo of the husband she lost six winters ago. The cold is hard — but the loneliness is harder.
This is America in 2026. Working people, veterans, seniors, children — all losing their homes, not because they gave up, but because the system gave up on them
At Heaven- Sent Community Services and Veterans Assistance,
we look at these people in the eyes every day — and we act. We deliver food and clothing. We pay RV lot fees when someone can’t. We repair their vehicles, fill gas tanks, and keep families safe for one more night.
But we can’t do it alone. Each dollar you give helps someone who’s holding on by a thread. It might mean a warm meal, a fixed tire, life-saving medication, or a night in safety instead of fear.
Please — give today.
Not to us to them
Reach out and help those who served, worked, and hoped — but were left behind.
They’re not strangers. They’re our neighbors. Our veterans. Our families. Our people.
Heaven Sent Community Services and Veterans Assistance.
Because no one should be forgotten.
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Our President and Founders Story
Heaven-Sent Community Services and Veterans Assistance began not in an office or around a boardroom table — but in a moment of quiet desperation.
Our founder, Joseph “Joey” Ryan, knew what it felt like to ask for help and be told, again and again, “I’m sorry… there are no funds available.” After losing his job, the bills piled up. The rent was due. The lights flickered, and the refrigerator hummed with only half-full shelves. Each phone call for help ended the same way — with a polite voice and a closed door.
For families like Joe’s, waiting months for another funding cycle isn’t an option. Children can’t eat promises, and electricity doesn’t wait for next quarter’s budget. In that pain — in the hollow silence that follows a desperate “no” — Joe made himself a promise: no one else would have to feel that kind of helplessness again.
Out of that moment of heartbreak, Heaven-Sent was born!
Joe spent the next decade preparing — studying nonprofit leadership, fundraising, and service. Through his work with FEMA, The American Red Cross, and MDR Disaster Relief, he learned how aid could move swiftly when people cared enough to act. Every connection he built, every lesson he learned,
Became one more stone laid in the foundation of Heaven- Sent mission.
By the age of 59, Joe looked around and saw a world where the cost of living had soared beyond reason. Where veterans and seniors — the very people who served, worked, and sacrificed to build this country — were falling through the cracks. Rent for a modest home had tripled; groceries stretched paychecks to the breaking point, and the word “affordable” had almost lost its meaning.
And still, people were being told, “There’s nothing left to give.
Joe refused to accept that answer!
He gathered a team of brothers and sisters — military veterans who understood duty, honor, and compassion — and together they built Heaven Sent, brick by brick, heart by heart. Every member carries the same conviction: that help should never depend on time, paperwork, or red tape. That compassion should never run out of funding.
At Heaven Sent, we serve because we remember. We remember what it feels like to struggle. We remember the faces of those who gave everything for this country and still came home to fight a different kind of battle — a battle for dignity, stability, and hope.
We stand here today because one man refused to let “no funds available” be the final word.
So, to every veteran, every senior, every disabled individual,
Every Family With Nowhere Else To Turn
KNOW THIS!
You Are Not Alone!
We See You!!
We believe in you. And as long as Heaven- Sent exists, you will never be left behind.
Because here, compassion is endless. Hope lives here. And Heaven-Sent is exactly what it sounds like — a promise kept.
We are a humanitarian organization built on compassion, forged by service, and driven by the belief that no one should ever be forgotten.
There’s a kind of silence on the streets that most people never hear. It begins after midnight — when traffic fades, stores go dark, and the wind moves through empty parking lots where people try to sleep. You’ll see the faint glow of flashlights inside cars, an old RV curtain drawn tight, a man sitting on a curb staring at the ground. These are not strangers from another world. These are veterans. Seniors. Disabled men and women. People who worked, who served, who loved, who once had homes and hopes — and lost both.
Heaven-Sent Community Services and Veterans Assistance was created for them. We’re a family of veterans, professionals, and volunteers who refuse to forget what humanity looks like. We understand what it means to fight for survival — some of us have fought wars overseas, and others are fighting wars right here at home.
We help the ones nobody sees anymore — the mother washing her child’s face in a gas station sink, whispering “almost done, sweetheart.” The veteran sitting in his van with medals that mean nothing when hunger gnaws louder than pride. The elderly woman hiding in her RV, pretending she’s traveling because it hurts too much to say she’s homeless.
These are our brothers and sisters. Each has walked a long, painful road — a road of layoffs, lost families, bad luck, and forgotten health. Some battle addictions that began with painkillers; others battle the ghosts of things they saw while wearing a uniform. And yet, every one of them still wakes up trying, every single day.
As a humanitarian organization, Heaven-Sent provides food, clothing, peer-to-peer counseling, job training, housing guidance, and most of all — someone who listens. Someone who says, “You matter.” Because before you can rebuild a life, you have to believe it’s worth saving.
Our work isn’t glamorous. It’s boots on cold asphalt. It’s long talks outside shelters. It’s waiting with someone while they decide whether to give up or keep fighting. But we’re here because we know healing doesn’t come from handouts; it comes from hands held out — and hearts that refuse to turn away.
Every story we witness changes us. We see pain that words can’t capture — and courage that humbles us. The courage of a man who gives his last dollar to feed his dog. The courage of a woman who keeps her child laughing through the cold. The courage of a veteran who says,
“I made it through worse. I can make it through this too.”
Heaven-Sent stands with them because they are our people. We believe all mankind deserves a second chance — to start over, to heal, to remember that they still belong.
No one chooses to freeze in a parking lot or sleep beside a highway. But life can break even the strongest among us. And when it does, we’ll be there — not to judge, not to preach, but to help carry the weight for a while.
Because when others walk past, we stop.
When others forget, we remember.
When the world gives up, we begin.
Heaven-Sent Community Services and Veterans Assistance, Inc.
A humanitarian organization dedicated to the forgotten, the fallen, and the faithful — because we are all part of one human family
The average age of veterans experiencing homelessness was 53 in 2024
Homeless veterans are typically older than the overall homeless population,
With a significant concentration in middle age and older adult demographics.
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In January 2024,
Approximately 32,882
Veterans were experiencing homelessness in the U.S!!!
When is one Brother,
or
Sister, too Many!!
Typically expressed in suicide rates (per 100,000 people) rather than absolute counts of individuals. Veterans with a history of homelessness have a significantly higher risk of suicide compared to housed veterans. Key Statistics on Suicide Risk and Homelessness
Increased Rate:
The suicide rate among veterans in VHA care with diagnoses of homelessness was 110.2% higher than for those without a diagnosis of homelessness in 2022.
Rate Disparity:
A separate study reported 48.4 suicide-related deaths per 100,000 person-years among unhoused veterans compared to 34.6 per 100,000 person-years among housed veterans.
Increased Likelihood of Attempts:
One study found that veterans with a history of homelessness were almost eight times more likely to have attempted suicide than veterans who had never been homeless.
Impact of VA Programs:
The risk of death by suicide was significantly reduced by 19% with each additional VHA homeless program accessed.