[No Audio:  Sister Maria started Gospel of Life Dwellings with one house and one 98 year-old 
woman who needed care. GOLD has now expanded to three homes in Oklahoma City and to St. 
Adelaide’s dwelling in Grand Prairie, TX, with plans to grow.]

[No Audio: Sister Maria of the Trinity, Gospel of Life Association]

It’s this grassroots little model that’s not expensive.  It’s not complicated. It takes people if they 
can help for an hour, that’s great. If they can help for a week, that’s great.  If they can help for a 
lifetime, that’s wonderful. Whatever it is they have to offer--whether it’s dropping off a meal 
once a week, whether it’s coming to just play the piano and sing with them once a month, 
whether it’s helping in the garden, or handyman fixing things that fall apart in these old houses, 
whatever it might be, whatever gift they have to share.  Because we don’t have any paid 
employees, so it’s all good. 

When people say, “What do you need?”  I say, “Whatever it is you are inspired to offer.” That is 
my vision for forming a family for the sake of these elders where it’s not just us doing for them. 
It’s us having daily life together.  But, it’s been working for four years by God’s grace. And, it 
really is kind of a cool. I have not recruited funds. I haven’t recruited help, and I haven’t 
recruited elders. It’s been, I think, I hope a response to what God is doing. 

That’s our goal is to form a family where they feel at home. And so, this isn’t an institution. It’s 
not a facility. It is a dwelling. Where we try to recognize each person as a dwelling place of God 
in the spirit, and we try to form together a dwelling place where they are able to live out their 
last days, months, weeks, years knowing that they matter, and they belong, and they have 
something still to offer.

[No Audio: gospeloflifedwellings.org]