During this Christmas week, we are presenting stories that give you something to smile about – stories of people who have made remarkable turnarounds.

Alcohol problems sent a Pinellas County business manager's life into a downward spiral that led to lots of arrests and a life on the streets. But a turn to faith led to a whole new life.

Six days a week, Henry Moses and his wife Heather take to the Countryside Christian Helping Hands truck.

“We’re headed to the Publix on 590 number 867 to go pick up food donations for today,” Henry Moses said.

They collect donated food from grocery stores for the church’s food pantry. It’s a far cry from six years ago, when the couple’s drunken fighting meant a judge issued a six-month no-contact order.

Henry’s drinking and DUIs meant he got booked into jail lots of times. He was almost unemployable and wound up living in homeless camps.

That’s when he decided to attend church at Countryside, got sober and started volunteering with Helping Hands.

Henry did so great organizing volunteers that the church hired him full time.

Now each day he leads Heather and the volunteers in prayer before they start giving the food to people in a car line.

“When you see our people show up, they have smiles on their faces,” Heather said. “They enjoy being here. They know we love them and that makes all of it worth it every single day.

“It’s fantastic to finally give back. I took for many, many years. It’s wonderful to give back and you sleep like a baby.”

It’s a 180 turnaround people who knew Henry and Heather knew years ago might have never believed.