Corsages Mother’s Day was just a few weeks away, when a nursing home called to ask if we would make 200 corsages for the women in their facility.  We didn’t have any flowers.  I didn’t know anyone who knew how to make corsages.  We didn’t have any money.  I wanted to say ‘no’ but she […]

Growing Friends for Life In the early 2000s, I felt very strongly that God wanted me to expand our work and hire some additional people. We were blessed at that time with free office space provided by Cheryl Lenamon in her ad agency. I told God we didn’t have any place to put people if […]

Central Freight When my son, Chuck, was working as a youth minister in Houston, he met a couple who donated gift items to his youth group so they could raise money for mission trips.  He said, “they have more than we can use.  I want to introduce you to them.”  I was blessed to have […]

License to Operate In the spring of 2000, I got a letter telling me that the adult day center in Waco would be closing in June.  I prayed God would not ask us to do that because I thought we had more than we could say grace over.  I asked friends to pray but by […]

I finished working about 3am one morning and I talked to God before I left to go home.

One Christmas eve, another nonprofit came by my office and dropped dozens of little pieces of paper on my desk.

God gave me the dream for this ministry in 1989 and I chose a law firm that had created 1,600 nonprofits to put Friends for Life together.