It’s Christmas Day at the Riverbed… who’s life did you change?
December 27th, 2011
Christmas at the Cruz home – and the home of others who volunteer at LifeHouse -was a little different this year. Once we were done with our family events, we all converged on the riverbed by the Honda Center to serve a meal of ziti pasta with salad, garlic bread, sweet white corn and more to our friends – many of whom are homeless. It was a beautiful, bright and sunny California day and our friends who came to eat with us made it even sunnier!
Two of the greatest quotes for the day “Every time you guys come here it’s Christmas for me” and “where is your church? I want to come. If these are the kinds of people who attend your church, I want to come to your church.”He was referring to the amazing volunteers who happily come every Sunday to provide a wonderful meal. I told him, they are all from different churches or no churches at all – and they all LOVE to come and help our friends who live outside and who need to eat a wholesome warm meal.
We served about 70 homeless men and women and children on Christmas afternoon with about 20 people volunteers who gladly gave their time. All of us left feeling more blessed than those who received the meal.
LifeHouse is dedicated to changing lives on both sides of the tables. Those who receive and those who give – doing what we do, our lives are forever changed. What a privilege to do what we do. I hope all of you had a Christmas that you will NEVER forget and one that has made a difference on someone’s life! Merry CHRISTmas!