{"id":30966,"date":"2025-11-25T14:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=30966"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:37:04","slug":"rescue-mission-honors-decatur-volunteer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/25\/rescue-mission-honors-decatur-volunteer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue Mission honors Decatur volunteer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Decatur woman was recently honored by the Fort Wayne Rescue Mission for her volunteer work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louise Ray, named the Rescue Mission&#8217;s Volunteer of the Year, was celebrated at an event held at the Parkview Mirro Event &amp; Conference Center in Fort Wayne on National Philanthropy Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re celebrating Louise Ray, an outstanding volunteer for The Rescue Mission,\u201d the agency said in a Facebook post. \u201cHer trademark smile and joyful attitude bless so many individuals in our community. Thank you, Louise! Our volunteers are amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Louise-Ray-chasity-payton.jpg?resize=640%2C505&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Louise-Ray-chasity-payton.jpg?w=811&amp;ssl=1 811w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Louise-Ray-chasity-payton.jpg?resize=300%2C237&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Louise-Ray-chasity-payton.jpg?resize=768%2C606&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Louise Ray with daughter Chastity and grandson Payton<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBasically, Louise is such a cool lady,\u201d an official told WZBD.com. \u201cAnd the mission is blessed to have her volunteering.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A WZBD.com story in January of 2024 noted that the Rescue Mission said Louise drives into downtown Fort Wayne once a week to volunteer at the mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo some, this might not seem like a lot, but to the staff and residents, this commitment of time and effort has made an undeniable difference,\u201d the mission pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, the Decatur woman was assisting with kitchen prep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is what the Lord has led me to do,\u201d Louise said about her decision to dedicate time to the Rescue Mission. \u201cI like serving people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com A Decatur woman was recently honored by the Fort Wayne Rescue Mission for her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,14,15],"class_list":["post-30966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-community","tag-decatur","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Louise-Ray-chasity-payton.jpg?fit=811%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30968,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30966\/revisions\/30968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}