“My name is Mike Salve…don’t forget it’s Mike Salve. M-I-K-E S-A-L-V-E. Well goodbye, just remember that my name is Mike Salve.” He doesn’t want me to remember his name so that he can be famous, or because he thinks he’s somebody. He makes sure that I know his name so I don’t forget him, so that maybe I’ll come back, so that just maybe I’ll return and visit him. Mike Salve is a man living in a nursing home.

Along with many of the other residents, he just wants a friend… to be remembered, to have someone sit down and talk. And every week we do just that. We get to be make their world a little brighter. Nursing homes are so often a place where people go and wait to die. We believe that God isn’t done with them yet. So we go and we sing, and we pray, and we talk with them, and remind them that there is still something worth living for.