....11 QL Team members comprised of Quicken/Rock Financial, Fathead and Title source volunteers in a sea of other like-minded volunteers; students, individuals and companies armed with shovels, pick axes, and wheel barrels – all of us getting instructions on how to plant a tree from the Greening of Detroit Experts, incredible people whose life work is keeping the earth green, literally one tree at a time. 

Too our surprise, there is more to planting a tree than just planting a tree, there’s the hole; man-made is better than machine-made and these holes are wide and deep! Picture standing in one up to your thigh.  Then there’s the tree – between 12 and 15 feet tall with their roots bundled in burlap and weighing a hundred pounds or more each – you cannot move these things by yourself, there’s the sod to be placed around the tree once it’s planted grass-side down so as not to compete for the nutrients the tree will need in its infant stage and then the 3 buckets of 15 gallons of water to get the little one feeding; then the cedar to cover it like a warm blanket…it takes a team of people who know what they are doing – thanks to our crash course – we were up for the job. 

By J Christe

Have you ever wanted to make a difference in someone’s life and have fun at the same time?

I had that opportunity last weekend while serving dinner at Grace Centers of Hope in Pontiac, Michigan along with team members from Rock Financial/Quicken Loans & Title Source. I also brought along my daughter Christina and my friend Mr. Love. It happens to be our favorite place to volunteer.