06/14/2026
Volunteer Highlight ✨ Glenda Keys-Stevens
One of the truly special joys of the work that goes on at South Street is seeing people transformed and empowered to give back from their own experience. Glenda Keys-Stevens models a heart to serve and a life in transformation. One of the ways she felt compelled to give back to others was through a Mother's Day event for those who have lost loved ones.
“I want to share about Mother's Day 2026. The purpose was for me to be able to celebrate with other women dealing with similar loss as I was. A prior year, on Mother's Day of 2025, my son was murdered.
I believe God laid on my heart not to let women or anybody, for that matter, be alone on Mother’s Day. The Mother's Day picnic was meant to draw those together who were suffering from the loss of a child, a mother, a sister, or a brother. It didn't really matter, only that they were suffering like me. And that I wanted God to be glorified at the event. Although it was a tragedy for my family and me, and it will always try to be a tragedy, I hoped we would be able to walk through this time with one another and be able to comfort each other through fellowship.
The theme of Mother's Day was the love of a mother. And for me, that was saying that although I lost my son, I was grateful. Although my son was taken from me, I wanted to say that it doesn't have to be a tragedy, that God can be honored in and through it.”
-Glenda Keys-Stevens
