For those new to our website, Deborah Scherman along with Diana Saltarelli help Ray Skop with his rosaries that started out being monthly and have progressed to being almost every Friday and many Wednesdays.
We are dedicated to him and his rosaries because both our daughters have received miracles. You can find their stories on these pages.
Ray found the painting of Mary and St. Anne in the garbage when he was fifteen. His painting began weeping the end of October 1998. He received his first stigmata on Good Friday 1999. Since then many people have been blessed by his prayers. He believes in the power of the rosary and asks us all to pray as often as possible. Through faith we hope that your prayers will be answered.
The Holy Oil that weeps from the painting is given out at the end of each rosary. It has been sent world wide and many people have received blessings from a distance through faith.
If you would like more information send an email to:
DEENI or call: (551) 655-4109
Pleas give special thanks to Pearl Check Cashing (376 Summit Ave., J.C.) for donating their services to the Ray of Hope.
November 2005 through October 2006:
$600 Donated to a family in need of food and household supplies
$200 Donated to help support a children's sports team
$250 Donated to pay school tuition for an inner city child
$200 Donation to a sick child's family
$400 Donation to a family to help pay medical bills
$1000 Donated to the Police Unity Tour memorial fund
$250 Donated to an elderly woman for food, medicine and bills
$290 Donated to an orphanage for gifts for the children
$2000 Started an outreach program at a stable for special needs children
$1000 Donated to A. Harry Moore School for television sets and VCRs
$1000 Donated to PACO
$150 Donated to a family to help pay medical bills
$150 Donated to a woman with cancer
$1150 Donated to The Kennedy Dancers to pay for inner city children's dance lessons
$150 Donated to a Veteran to pay bills
$150 Donated to a family to pay medical bills
$500 Donated to a woman with cancer
$400 Donated to a college student to buy books
$1120 Donated to a college student to buy books
$200 Donated to Make a Wish, Laurence City, MI.
$500 Donated to a woman with cancer
$500 Donated to a child with cancer
$350 Donated to a family for school tuition
$500 Donated to an inner city team for uniforms and medical expenses
$310 Donated to a family with financial difficulties
$160 Donated to The Theresa Nance Ministry to help men in jail
$100 Donated to the family of a sick child
$100 Donated to a family to pay medical bills
$180 Donated to a family to help pay funeral expenses
$500 Donated to a Bicycle Run for Victims' of the World Trade Center
$250 Donated to a child with autism
$500 Donated to a child with autism
$300 Donated to a family having financial difficulties
$150 Donated to a family having financial difficulties
$55 Donated to pay a doctor's bill for a sick child
$300 Donated to a homeless shelter
$250 Donated to an orphanage
$425 Donated to The Kennedy Dancers to pay for inner city children's dance lessons
$150 Donated to a Vietnam Veteran to pay bills
$100 Donated to pay tuition for an inner city child
$1000 Donated to help pay for a child's surgery
$384 Donated to a family with financial difficulties
NON-MONETARY DONATIONS
Donated gifts to inner city schools
Donated toys to St. Joseph's Hospital
Donated toys to St. Lucy's Homeless Shelter
Donated toys to Christ Hospital
Donated toys to Christ Hospital's Outreach Center for poor and homeless families
Donated toys to a special needs school
Donated food to homeless shelters
Donated food to families in need
Donated food to the elderly
Donated gifts to local nursing homes
Donated clothes to a homeless shelter
$320 Hoboken YMCA - Help summer camp kids
$2000 Lake Charles Relief
$250 St. Anthony's - tuition for student
$250 St. Joseph's of Palisade - tuition for student
$400 St. John's - tuition for student
$500 Donated-Gun buy back program-to protect local citizens - Mayor Healy
Visited sick children at St. Joseph's Hospital - took pictures and gave presents to sick children
Donated hotdogs to the homeless
Provided meals and clothes to people with addictions
September
$250 Help family with cancer
$100 Donation to help a poor person
$150 Donation to help woman with cancer
$250 Help family pay medical bills
$250 Help family pay medical bills
$1000 A. Harry Moore School for Technology Advancement
August
$250 Help woman pay funeral costs of child
$225 Help sick person
$500 Help family with three very sick children
$350 Help family pay medical bills
July
$100 Donation to Public School #6 to purchase uniforms - basketball team
June
$300 PACO - donation for Autism
$250 Donation for sick family
$156 Donation for medical bills
$250 Donation to poor family
$360 Helped senior citizen with living expenses
$700 To Kennedy School of Dance for inner city children to take dance lessons
$100 Donation to help a sick woman
May
$500 Help family with medical expenses
$400 Help disabled Vietnam Veteran
$500 Scholarship award to student for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
$250 Help poor family
$250 Donation for medical bills
$175 Hudson Market - flowers donation for family
April
$300 Help family with funeral expenses
$190 Visitation School - help pay costs
$250 Education payment for college student
$250 Help child with cancer
March
$250 Donation to family for a sick child
$250 Donation to child with cancer
$500 Scholarship award Ramapo College
$200 Books for college - Ranapo College
$400 Donation for student - University of Glasgow
$250 Donation for child with brain tumor
$250 Donation for child with encephalitis for medical bills
$500 Help family pay funeral expenses
$200 Help family with medical bills
$500 Help a family with illness
February
$300 Donated to man who lost legs to diabetes
$400 Sponsor AIDS Walk
$250 Donated to sick person
$565 Kennedy Dancers - allowing inner city children to dance
January
$200 Child with cancer
$800 Helped disabled veteran
$100 Helped family buy school supplies
$150 Resurrection Baptist Church - helped homeless
$400 Monumental Baptist Church - help poor
$500 Educational Scholarship
$500 Operation save a life-anti-abortion services
$250 Help sick person pay medical bills
$700 Donation of washer and dryer to inner city family
$50 Resurrection Parish
$250 Rachel Vineyards-antiabortion clinic
$200 Angels connections-help families with AIDS
$200 Help sick family
$500 Help person who needed bone marrow transplant
$200 Help sick person pay bills
$200 Help sick person pay bills
$200 Dante Alighieri Holiday Raffle
$200 Help sick person pay bills
$225 Help sick person pay bills
Public School #3 Holiday celebration - toy drive
$500 Hudson Milestones Day Care Center-Holiday toys
$225 Help sick person pay bills
Donate gifts to A. Harry Moore School for holiday
$250 Outing day for family who adopted four children
Gave presents to homeless shelters for families
Gave books to Jersey City Public Schools
Gave presents to inner city families
Gave clothes to families in need
Sponsored a luncheon at a local nursing home
Donated presents to St. Lucy's Homeless Shelters
Donated presents to Children's Crisis Center
Donated toys to inner city children at Dante Alighieri
November
$200 Theresa Nance Ministries for men in jail and men with AIDS
$375 Recipient of scholarship
$450 To YMCA to help inner city children
$200 Help family pay for medicine
$250 Help poor family for Christmas
$200 Help poor family for Christmas
$500 Franciscan Order - buy turkeys for the homeless and poor
October
$700 Hackensack Hospital - Christmas party for patients
Hackensack Hospital - Halloween party for patients
Hackensack Hospital - Thanksgiving party for patients
$500 To paralyzed man for TV & VCR
$1000 Family with Cystic Fibrosis
$300 Theresa Nance Ministries for men in jail and men with AIDS
Halloween goodies given to A. Harry Moore School
Previous Months
Donated $250.00 for funeral expenses.
Donated $200.00 for a family in need.
Donated $250.00 to a family with a crippled child.
Donated $200.00 to The Hudson Cradle - an orphanage for children.
Donated $250.00 to a sick child's family.
Donated $500.00 to Jimmy King Charity, he feeds the homeless in Jersey City.
Donated $500.00 to a sick woman to help pay her medical needs.
Donated $250.00 to a family with an autistic child.
Donated $200.00 to a woman for traveling expenses to visit relatives in another country.
Donated $500.00 to Governor General Charitable Fund for Children's Hospital.
Donated $500.00 to a family for medical bills for their child.
Donated $100.00 for a child in need.
Donated $300.00 to a poor family.
Donated $300.00 to the Hoboken YMCA.
Donated $400.00 to a family for medical needs.
Donated $200.00 to help a family with school supplies.
Donated $150.00 to help Puerto Rico Community affairs.
Donated $200.00 for medical expenses for a needy family.
Donated $500.00 to a child for a scholarship award.
Donated $500.00 towards the AIDS Walk a second time.
Donated $250.00 for funeral expenses.
Donated $250.00 for living expenses to a family in need.
Donated $150.00 to an inner city family for school supplies.
Donated $200.00 to Pastor Care HUMC for a church in Jersey City.
Donated $250.00 to a disabled adult.
Donated $250.00 to help a child with cancer.
Donated $500.00 for St. Mary's basketball team tournament.
Donated $200.00 for a family to fly to visit their sick father.
Donated $600.00 for tuition reimbursement to a needy family.
Donated $300.00 to a child with cancer.
Donated $500.00 to a child with cancer.
Donated $100.00 to a child for educational needs.
Donated $250.00 for a child's funeral.
Donated Easter Baskets to Christ Hospital.
Donated Easter Baskets to a Jersey City Women's shelter.
Donated Easter Baskets to Jersey City Medical Center for underprivileged families.
Visited A. Harry Moore School at Easter bringing toys for the children and donated $1000.00 for special computer technology.
Donated $500.00 to a family with a sick child that has cancer.
Donated $750.00 to help a child with a brain tumor.
Donated $1000.00 to the Outreach Association's book drive for public schools in Jersey City.
Donated $500.00 to the AIDS walk.
Donated $250.00 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Donated $300.00 to the NAACP for education needs.
Donated $250.00 to a child with a brain tumor.
Donated $500.00 for an inner city scholarship award.
Donated $80.00 for medical treatment for a sick person.
Visited children at St. Joseph's Hospital twice, bringing toys and taking Polaroid pictures.
Donated a bicycle to a hard working man whose bicycle got stolen.
Donated items to Hudson Cradle for orphaned children.
Made a $500.00 donation to a child for a scholarship award.
Donated $390.00 to the Kennedy Dance Studio of Jersey City to allow some underprivileged children to take dance classes.
Donated $150.00 as a Christmas donation to help a family with medical bills.
Donated $200.00 to help homeless families.
Donated $150.00 to help a poor family at Christmas.
Donated $200.00 to a sick Woman.
Bought T-shirts for Care Bear Bowling League an inner city league who couldn't afford uniforms.
Donated Easter baskets to St. Lucy's Battered Women Shelter.
Donated Easter baskets to the Jersey City Medical Center's Clinic for Welfare Families.
Visited A. Harry Moore Special Needs School with Deeni dressed as the Easter Bunny and gave toys to all the children.
Visited St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson with Deeni dressed as the Easter Bunny. We took Polaroid pictures with all the children for them as a remembrance.
Donated clothes to local homeless shelters and battered women shelters.
Donated $200 to Teresa Nance Ministry in Paterson, who work with aids children in Newark and help provide assistance to men leaving prison.
Donated $100 to a family without a prescription plan for their child's medical expenses.
A $500.00 contribution was made to St. Anthony's School.
$260.00 was given to the family of a child with seizures.
Contributions of $200.00 and $350.00 were made to a family with children and another family in need.
Grandparents were given $250.00 for their grandchildren.
A contribution of $500.00 was given to a family for medicine and doctor bills.
Contributions of $150.00 & $150.00 were given to a family in need and a family with a dying member.
The Kennedy Dance Studio was given $475.00 and $300.00 for inner city children and to send them to camp.
$290.00 and $200 was given to help a couple of families pay bills.
A sick person was given $150.00 and $200.00 was donated to help a family of a funeral.
The Monumental Baptist Day Church was given $400.00 to help with its home for inner city women group.
Donated $100 to a family without a prescription plan for their child's medical expenses.
Donated $246.40 to the homeless.
Donated $1300.00 to help sick (cancer) families with medical expenses.
Donated $1000.00 to help sick people.
Donated $500.00 for a child's funeral.
Donated $100.00 to a sick family.
Donated $200.00 to a poor family.
Donated $100.00 to a poor family.
Donated $200.00 to a sick child's family.
Donated $300.00 to Toys for tots.
Spent $81.25 for flowers to send to a wake.
Donated $100.00 to the YMCA.
Donated $150.00 for vitamins for a cancer patient.
Donated $150.00 to a poor family.
Donated $100.00 to the Marist high school walkathon.
Donated $200.00 for Thanksgiving.
Donated $200.00 to the Franciscan order for Thanksgiving.
2002:
Donated to Hoboken Little League $100 for uniforms.
Donated $200 for a very ill man to help his family enjoy Thanksgiving.
Donated $1000 to a family to help pay funeral costs for their child.
Donated $200 to the Monumental Baptist Church.
Visited St. Mary's Hospital in Hoboken and gave toys to sick children.
Visited St. Mary's Hospital in Hoboken and gave toys to mentally challenged children.
Visited St. Mary's Hospital in Hoboken and gave many gifts to the clinic for welfare families.
Gave $500 for medical expenses to a family with a child with cancer.
Gave a single, struggling mother $250 for Christmas to help pay the bills.
Visited a local nursing home to bring Christmas cheer.
Visited and gave toys to PS #16 school in Jersey City.
Donated to Civic Association for Jersey City improvement programs.
Donated $500 to St. Dominic Academy in Jersey City for their softball tournament.
Visited and gave gifts to A. Harry Moore School for special needs children.
Donated $500 to a family in need to help cover medical cost of their sick child.
Donated $250 to a family who was struggling financially.
Donated $250 and gave toys to a homeless family living in a car at Christmas time.
Gave toys to the Presbyterian Church on Rose Ave., Jersey City for their members.
Donated many gifts to the Jersey City West District Police Department who distributed them to many inner city families.
Gave an inner city family a donated color T.V.
Gave many clothes to local shelters.
Paid for a homeless family to sleep in a hotel Christmas Eve and New Years Eve.
Gave clothes to the less fortunate homeless people of Mt. Carmel Church.
Donated toys to Christ Hospital Emergency Room, pediatric floor, and to children whose parents are addicted to drugs.
2001:
Gave $500 to the Christ Hospital for new toys for ill children. This event was featured in the Jersey Journal newspaper.
Gave $500 to the Christ Hospital for the Cardiac Unit.
Gave toys to another foundation in Jersey City, whose toys were stolen prior to Christmas. This event was featured in the Jersey Journal newspaper.
Gave ill children of the Jersey City Medical Center and Christ Hospital toys for the Holidays during Christmas.
Gave toys to the children of 2 classes at Jersey City PS #6.
Gave toys to another foundation, to distribute to the underprivileged children and those with special needs, in the Jersey City area.
Sent 14 Jersey City underprivileged children to the Kennedy Dancers and Carol Hayes Dance Studios summer camp for 2 weeks.
Gave $500 to an underprivileged Jersey City family to help with expenses of burying their daughter.
Gave gifts to St. Claire's Hospital for sick children.
Gave ill children of the Morristown Memorial Hospital toys and gifts for the Holidays during Christmas.
Gave $2000 to a teenage boy and his family for medical expenses, who was paralyzed during an unfortunate bicycle accident.
Gave $1000 to St. Mary's Parish for a Computer.
Gave $500 to help a single mother with 5 children to pay the medical expenses for her sick child's experimental drug protocol.
2000:
Gave a plethora of clothes to various Jersey City shelters, through our community drive.
Gave $500 to the Jersey City Medical Center for ill children to have a Holiday party during Christmas.
DEBBIE or call: (201) 787-5639
GREG or GINA
The following is a continuing list of our foundation's achievements:
$250 Donated to man with cancer
2005:
(see Letter of Appreciation)
(see Letter of Appreciation)
October
2004:
December
2003:
Contributed to St. Dominic's Academy Blue Devil Invitational Softball Tournament.
(see Letter of Appreciation)
Donated $400 to a family to help pay funeral costs.
Gave ill children of the Jersey City Medical Center, Christ Hospital, Morristown Memorial, St. Claire's, St. Joseph's, Bon Secure Monmouth Medical Center, Easter baskets.
Gave $500 to the Progressive Nursing Home for food for the Thanksgiving Celebration.