Signs of a Turnaround

Volunteers and clients have dinner together.

We hadn't served dinner to the displaced families of Home and Hope since September. In the intervening months there had been a pleasant development: four new volunteers asked to participate in the cooking, serving, and cleaning up.

The church used to have ten regular participants, but because of age, disability, and death there are only three of us left. (Your humble observer doesn't believe in the strong-arm: I ask for help on Sunday during the announcements, post the notice in the newsletter, and pin the sign-up sheet to the bulletin board.)

Whether due to favorable changes in personal circumstances, blossoming of charitable impulses, or sympathy for the less fortunate, there are signs of a turnaround in the willingness of people to donate their time. If you keep it going, they will come.