This week’s featured OA from the New Life Community Church e-zine:

I volunteer at a hospital, just to try to be of help to people during difficult times. Several months ago one of the elderly ladies that volunteer at the hospital missed her shifts for a few weeks. When I inquired as to why, I found out that she had a recurrence of cancer. It has now come back in her bones and is incurable.

She has decided to not pursue any treatment. She has stopped all chemo-therapy treatment because the cost was eating into her savings. I called her to see if I could help in any way. After having a nice conversation, we decided that I could best help by taking her out every other week on a Tuesday morning, shopping for groceries. On the alternate Tuesdays we do something different. This week we are going to hunt for a store that has a good selection of rubber stamps. (She loves those things.)

I have learned that she writes poetry, and wants to illustrate the pages with birds. She is now under Hospice care for the rest of the week and they have been so very good to her. They even “hard bound” one of her books for her, and she is thrilled.

I learned so much from the Doable Evangelism Seminar. I regularly leaf through the book (Evangelism Without Additives) just to remind myself of the simple things we can do, that can really mean a lot.