Paying it Forward: No look, no see #109
April 5th, serve and make acquaintance. What do singing birds feel? How can one person change someone's life? Seven ways, two weeks to work it into your schedule!
Jack Browne, March 23, 2025 Times Record News
Everything looks great, nothing for me to do.
Really?
Take a small trash bag and walk the block around your home – either a short or long walk. Pick up every piece of rubbish you would not want in your yard. Bet your bag is full before you have completed a circuit.
Our senses only work if we "enable" them. Sight, Sound, Speech, Smell, Touch sense what is happening around you. What do singing birds feel like? Hear those daffodils blooming – finally after three years? Improvements take time to bloom, use every sense to observe.
If you “see something, say something” is a phrase many hear with regard to safety in public buildings or while traveling.
Saturday April 5th at 8am, come “do something” as part of the community in a half-day of service to others. Catholic Charities collaborated with many others in organizing seven different opportunities to impact other people’s lives significantly.
When: Saturday, April 5, 2025, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Where: Vernon College Atrium, Century City Center, 4105 Maplewood Ave, 76308. Park and enter the Atrium from the Maplewood Street side.
Volunteer at Catholic Charities Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CCNorthwest
First get to know one another over breakfast. With new friends, serve on one of the following seven projects: Texoma ramp project, Organization of parish storage at St. Paul Catholic Church, Planting flowers & trees at Wichita County Cemetery, Join District 2 Councilor, Robert Brooks in a Eastside community clean-up project, or Yardwork for Veteran's Homesite. There are also two projects at Vernon College, work in their student pantry and write inspirational cards to those needing some caring words.
And by noon, good deeds done, the rest of the day is yours – or for yardwork.
What do you see? An opportunity to serve, one project at a time. Make a new acquaintance. And change a life!
Jack Br is a community activist and was technology engineer, sales and marketing executive at Motorola, MIPS Technologies and other companies. How are the children doing?