The night before our the Open House of our Intergenerational Center, I prayed. I knew I needed to be working on my speech for the next day, but I also knew we were supposed to issue payroll the following day and I wasn’t sure how we were going to do that. I asked God if [...]
My youngest son called me one day to tell me about a couple from his church. He explained how incredible they were and what a blessing they had been to their youth ministry as they had given them gift items to sell to raise money for mission trips. I met them and told them about [...]
About a month before our first Mother’s Day at Friends for Life, I got a call from a nursing home. Could we provide corsages for all the female residents? Well, I had no money and didn’t even know how to make a corsage.
When we were creating our Intergenerational Center we wanted a security system. We wanted a way to be sure that the people in our Adult Day Care Center were safe especially since we knew some of our clients had dementia. We applied for a grant but we didn’t get it. At that point, we thought [...]
I had been trying to do multiple jobs including development but there didn’t seem to be enough time to get it all done. It was after two in the morning and I was still at work at the charity. I had time then to call on people to ask them to help us, but I couldn’t [...]
When we were remodeling our facility, we found a great deal on tile for our reception area. The area was measured and we bought the tile and saved it. When that time came and they began laying the tile, we discovered there wasn’t enough. The tile man explained that tile comes in lots like carpet [...]