Volunteering in the body of Christ does not always mean volunteering inside the church walls. This past year, our church body has served the community through food drives, community clean-up projects, and habitat build. Another opportunity to serve is through Cornerstone Homeless Center in Dallas. Several families, including the Carpenter Family (Deanna, Lance, and Faith) have made this service opportunity part of their weekly routine. and for the Carpenters, what began as a way to help others became something greater. 

"Our family's journey volunteering to serve the homeless in South Dallas with Cornerstone can only be explained one way—that it is God's amazing and perfect plan for us. The homeless, who we now call friends, have given us new compassion as well as humbleness that has blessed our lives immensely. Those who have nothing many times seem to rely on God so much more than those of us who have been so blessed, and it touches our hearts when we see those who do not even have a home or food praise God and say 'God is good all the time.'

"In the beginning we were hesitant about leaving the comfort of Frisco, going into an area we weren't familiar with, and being around people that many would consider outcasts yet God kept pulling at our hearts to go. We now know that God wanted us to go because the people who we thought we were serving are actually touching our hearts in a way that can't be imagined through their kindness, appreciation, and humility. God continues to grow our spiritual walk through the opportunity to serve at Cornerstone, and we thank God for the friends we have made on this incdreible journey."