S. Dawn Bowles - God's Steward    

Attempting to teach my children about volunteering and caring for those less fortunate, I volunteered myself and my children to deliver holiday meals to the elderly .  I accomplished this task through the "Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly" program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Once we were assigned a name and given an address we would take the meal over to the senior and sit with him or her for a while.

 After offering my services for a couple of years, I later became friends with a few seniors and continued to call and visit them outside of the Philadelphia program.  I would go to their house for a cup of coffee or tea and just listen.  Later when I found myself unemployed, with what seemed to be no employment prospects, I spent my time driving the seniors to places they needed to go, just running errands; never asking for anything but just out of the sense of duty, compassion, and respect for the elderly.

 During my visits conversation would come up concerning things that they needed done, anywhere from small repairs to re-hanging cabinets that appear to be falling down.  I figured in my head that if I could get that one thing done, however small, it would improve the quality of their life and that just small things made them happy. 

 So as I continued to help, then I felt the leading of God within me and I began to become even more concerned, and more involved with the values of personal choice, dignity, self determination, and quality of life for the seniors.  I wanted them to feel like someone cared.  

 The thought that the seniors, often times, "do not have a voice" stuck in my head. They should have the right to live "how" and "where" they want to.  My idea to birth a business that would lend a voice to them, provide services at minimum cost, encompass all of what I wanted to do, and all I wanted them to have became, "Christ Advocates for the Elderly."  A Christian based not for profit organization that would do exactly that. 

It is my prayer that the Lord Jesus the Christ bless this business as it glorifies him through providing stewardship to his seniors.

"It is not required of a steward that he be found clever. It is not required of a steward that he be found lucrative. It is only required of a steward that he be found trustworthy, or faithful."