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Ep #298 – How 'My Why' became 'Why Not': Meet Kelli Howerton
Tuesday, 23 December, 2025
Kelli Howerton’s journey, from serving shifts at our warming center to stepping onto the board, frames this conversation. As a MAP volunteer and TRM Board Member, Kelli shares how slowing down, listening well, and setting healthy boundaries reshaped the way she serves. She reflects on patience in prayer, choosing presence over quick fixes, and the slow, faithful work that truly breaks cycles for families and kids through structure, safety, education, and trust.Through a volunteer's lens, we also glimpse the broader work of serving our guests and unsheltered neighbors, months of effort that stretch capacity and resolve. Through shelter Christmas parties, gift deliveries, food distributions, and weather that can swing from 70 degrees to -7, volunteers remain a vital piece of TRM, saving hundreds of thousands in labor costs while offering what money can’t: consistency, names remembered, and care that stays when things are hard. Volunteers remain the heartbeat, but year-end giving is critical to sustaining this work after a challenging year of rising costs and reduced funding. Closing the gap now stabilizes operations and positions us to enter the new year ready to meet need without pause.To learn more about TRM, Click Here!To support TRM, Click Here! Send us a Message!
