The Carpenter's Hands on Moving Day

Margaret Chen had lived alone in her apartment on Birch Street for eleven years after her husband passed. When the building was condemned last October, she sat on her front step with nowhere to go and no family within five hundred miles. By Saturday morning, six members of Grace Fellowship showed up with a borrowed truck. Dave Kowalski, a retired carpenter with arthritic knuckles, spent three hours wrapping every piece of her china in newspaper, handling each plate like it was communion ware.…