Janet

Janet lives in a small two bedroom house on an acre in Sammamish. She bought the house a long time ago. Since that time, old age and some chronic conditions have made it difficult for her to walk around, much less keep up her beautiful property. Janet does pretty well on her own - she became a Faith in Action client mainly to receive help with her yardwork.

Faith in Action recently got a phone call from the Care-a-Van program of Hebrew High at the Jewish Community Center in Phoenix. They are 28 teenagers and their chaperons traveling throughout the West, doing community service projects in the morning, and then doing touristy activities in the afternoon. Their Seattle-area community service project that they set up fell through - could they help us instead?

Janet's home was one of the projects we selected for these teens. The teens arrived on Tuesday, June 22. If you remember, this was our first real day of summer and the weather was beautiful - the teens really lucked out!

They set to work dead heading the rhododendrons, weeding, raking, and pruning. Originally they were only going to take about 40 minutes, but I think they got so much in the spirit of the work, they stayed quite a bit longer.

I talked to Janet today about the work the teens did, and she was thrilled. "They worked so hard", she reported. "It looks so much better," she continued, "I am so grateful to have Faith in Action in my life".

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