The Volunteer of the Month for June 2022 is Harvey Brisard! Heart2Heart is grateful for Harvey’s willingness to jump in and help when needed. Remarkably, Harvey didn’t initially expect to become a volunteer with Heart2Heart. His teenage daughter, Maria, was the...
Last week, we talked about how we define health and how cultural perspectives might change our definitions. Now, I want to discuss how those definitions affect our healthcare decisions as we age. There was a time when the lifespan of humans was not very long. However,...
Food for Hope volunteer Gina and her daughter deliver five meals to a senior. In its third week of deliveries, Food for Hope is already making a difference in the lives of seniors, beyond the meals themselves. Heart2Heart Volunteer Coordinator Antonella Salerno saw...
This month, I want to discuss health. Specifically, I want to ask: what does it mean to be healthy? Most of us would jump to a quick answer. However, the definition of health could be different depending on where you’re from and what your beliefs are. The obvious...
Congratulations to Juan Ramos for being recognized as Heart2Heart’s Volunteer of the Month for May 2022! Juan gives his time in two crucial Heart2Heart outreaches every week. To start, he leads a Sunday morning worship service at a care center. He also began...
Tracey Miller was already a Heart2Heart volunteer, helping seniors at care center craft events with a group of volunteers. But God was calling her to something new. Recently, she began visiting Cassilda Smith at her home through Heart2Heart’s Relief C.A.R.E....
Seniors from the North Lauderdale community and beyond came to Riverside Church for an inaugural Age My Way event on May 12. They enjoyed food, games and door prizes while learning about resources in the community available to them. The Age My Way event was a...
At Heart2Heart, we truly believe that everyone has a role in ministering to seniors. I’d love everyone to become a Heart2Heart volunteer. We’d love to educate the whole community on our core values because I think that would serve our seniors well. However, we also...
For April, Heart2Heart wishes to honor Judie Nance as our Volunteer of the Month! Judie has written children books and worked with inmates in a county jail. About a year ago, she started volunteering with seniors. “I had just recently retired, and I was looking for...
A total of 250 iPads are being programmed especially for seniors living in care centers across Broward County, as part of Heart2Heart’s expanded C.A.R.E. Tech program. So far, 12 care centers have claimed a total of 60 iPads for their residents. Last month,...