Youth Join JustServe Efforts in North Texas With Cleanup Projects, Donations and More
Service efforts in North Texas include helping food pantries, gardens and cemeteries
By Mary Richards, Church News
Youth in the Prosper Texas Stake show some of the handwritten cards of encouragement they made for a JustServe project on March 9, 2024. Angela Loertscher
JustServe youth volunteers from the Prosper Texas Stake spent Saturday, March 9, in a service project for other youth in their community who needed some cheer.
Throughout the evening, the volunteers made handwritten notes of kindness, encouragement and motivation that the RefreshNTX nonprofit organization then distributed to youth in need.
RefreshNTX gathers and distributes full-sized personal hygiene products for children and teens at 95 schools in Frisco, Little Elm and Denton, all in the northern part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
Volunteer Brooks Campbell said there have been times when he has needed encouragement and said he felt “a sense of light” as he created cards of motivation and kindness for other people.
Abby Martino said it was her first project with JustServe — a website and app created to help volunteers find service projects around them and for nonprofit organizations to list their needs.
“I was just glad I could do something uplifting. We would write messages [on the cards] to strengthen the kids, like ‘you are loved’ and ‘you have purpose.’”
The worldwide JustServe Instagram account featured the teens’ efforts with a post saying, “‘You have purpose’ is a message everyone needs to hear. Thank you to these incredible volunteers for taking time to uplift kids in their community.”