“Sometimes it makes me mad when I hear people saying that they need to go out of the country to be on mission,” said Ashley Marie Eckstein. “There’s a field right here in Dallas. I really view my job as a mission… and that mission is in the classroom.
GLOW: A Day of Beauty at Watermark was much more than a day of pampering for women served by our partner ministries throughout the city. It was a day for volunteers at Watermark to help further ongoing relationships we have with women at Cornerstone Baptist Church, Union Gospel Mission’s Center of Hope, Exodus, and other ministries for women in need.
“In the last couple of months, the news has been filled with images, posts and conspiracies regarding Osama Bin Laden’s death. These images take me back almost 10 years ago when I was a new college graduate working in New York. My first job was as a stockbroker working in the World Trade Center,” said Nathan Harness.
Whether you donated one can or helped organize a delivery of hundreds of pounds of food, everyone’s contribution made a big difference during Hunger Month at Watermark in June. So much food was donated to the Stuff the Truck Food drive in the third week that the truck couldn’t be moved because it was so heavy! And Stuff the Truck was just one part of the Hunger Month initiative at Watermark. Here are just a few of the highlights.
“I am a natural born Pharisee. Trying to justify myself through works is the greatest sin of my life,” said Matt Boswell. “I love to make new laws to prove my own righteousness — and occasionally so I can judge others for not keeping them. I’m both a rule maker and a rule breaker. There’s a part of my nature that hates the rules. It’s a battle…every day.
