We’re so grateful to MySweetCharity for spotlighting VNA Meals on Wheels this week — and to VNA Board Member Christi Morrow for sharing why volunteering matters so deeply to her.
For more than 12 years, Christi has spent an hour a week delivering meals to homebound seniors across Dallas County, often alongside her husband, her children, and friends from Saint Michael and All Angels. As she puts it, “there is no better way to spend an hour than delivering food and friendship to a Meals on Wheels client.”
Her message comes at an important moment. VNA Meals on Wheels delivers more than 1.6 million meals each year to seniors across nearly 1,000 square miles of Dallas County. Today, volunteers deliver about 40% of those meals — and we’ve set an ambitious goal to reach 50% in FY27. Getting there means adding roughly 30 volunteer routes each day, which would save nearly $324,000 annually in delivery costs. Those savings could provide a full year of meals for approximately 159 additional seniors currently waiting for service.
But as Christi reminds us, a volunteer delivers far more than food. The knock on the door, the smile, the brief conversation — for many of our clients, that moment of connection is the only visitor they’ll see all day.
Volunteers can choose a delivery area near their home, workplace, or church, and deliver once a week, once a month, or with a group. It takes about an hour, and it changes lives — including yours.
Read Christi’s full story on MySweetCharity, and when you’re ready to join her on a route, sign up at volunteer.vnatexas.org.