Meals on Wheels
As we completed “Forty Days of Purpose”, three women prayerfully searched for a new way to serve our local community. At the same time, a Christian Senior Services coordinator prayed for volunteers to start a new Meals on Wheels program in the Randolph metroplex area to relieve an overburdened program in the Nacogdoches Road area. God brought these women - Carol Prescott, Marilyn Birmingham and Daylene McEathron together with Christian Senior Services at an “Opportunity Fair” at UCUMC. The seed was planted and the ladies coordinated development of the Meals on Wheels program for the Universal City and Converse area. To maintain quality and accountability, the volunteers attend training and turn in route sheets to Meals on Wheels of San Antonio. Delivery of meals began shortly before Thanksgiving of 2004 and the program at UCUMC now uses 24 volunteers to deliver to 13 clients at 10 stops daily, for a total of 65 meals per week. But this program is much more than just supplying food to people age 60 or older who are homebound, unable to go to a senior nutrition center for lunch, and unable to prepare a lunch for themselves. The volunteers also check on the condition of each client and in some cases, the Meals on Wheels volunteer is the only human contact the client has that day. This program is growing and providing a much needed service to God's sheep in this area.