"My whole life I've wanted to help the homeless. Before I came to the Springs Rescue Mission I didn't realize that not only homeless people came to the Mission.

Around December of 2009 I wanted to help them very much. I was looking for places that I could donate to when I came across y'all. I had already cleaned out much of my closet and was going to donate that when, coincidentally, my teacher for leadership class at Colorado Springs Christian School assigned a community service project.

Since I had already started gathering clothes, I decided to do a clothes drive for the project. At first it started out pretty slow. Then I came to school one day and there were tons of black bags in the bins. I held the drive for about 2 weeks.

When I brought it to the Mission the look of surprise on the dept. coordinators faces was hilarious. I don't think they expected so much stuff. I had no idea I was going to get anything in return other than a feeling of "with this stuff i may make someones entire day". I hope that the feeling was a real hope. I'm just glad that I got to help other people.

- Kelle McCormick