KWTX did a story about Robert Griffin III and his volunteer work with Friends for Life.
Congratulations to Robert Griffin III, Baylor University quarterback and Friends for Life volunteer, for winning the Heisman trophy! We appreciate your hard work on and off the field. God bless you for your hard work and generosity.
Christmas was coming and a volunteer called me to say he wanted to visit someone Christmas Day. He wasn’t going to be able to go home to see his mom and dad over Christmas and he thought it would be nice to spend the day with a lonely senior. I asked him to visit an [...]
When the volunteer walked into her room at the nursing home, she was greeted by a very excited resident who asked, “is that a Bible? Please read it to me. I came here three years ago. I had been taken by ambulance to the hospital and there was no time for them to get my [...]
I sent dozens of girls from a sorority at Baylor University to a nursing home one day to deliver stuffed animals to the ladies and balloons to the men. Later that day, I received a call from the social worker at the nursing home. She said, “Inez, I have to tell you something that happened after the girls left.”
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.
I got a call one day from the activity director at a nursing home. She said, “There is a man here who is going to die, I think, if you can’t help him.”