At church last Sunday the pastor had a great analogy about service. Imagine a chair representing those needing to be served—in JLCR’s case, teens in our community. How often we are comfortable just walking around and around the chair (a life version of a cake walk)?  We so seldom take the time to actually sit down in the chair; let alone stay there for any length of time. It is my hope (now that we have...

Another successful Done In a Day (DIAD) project has been completed! DIADs are JLCR’s smaller community service projects that are done one day out of every month from September through May. During November’s DIAD, JLCR members donated an abundance of items to CrossRoads Mission in Cedar Rapids including toilet paper, diapers, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, and formula. According to Missy Dennis, DIAD...