North Texas woman left accounting career to help others.
By Shaun Rabb and FOX Texas Digital
Published December 2, 2024 11:47am CST
Wylie
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North Texas woman left accounting career to help others
Janet Collinsworth has helped homeless women and led families to find stability in their lives.
• Janet Collinsworth left an accounting career to help others.
• She started the Agape Research and Assistance Center to help women dealing with homelessness.
• Now, Collinsworth is behind the effort to build affordable housing in Wylie for women in need.
Janet Collinsworth has helped homeless women and led families to find stability in their lives.
The change began with her daughter and teaching her year-long Methodist confirmation class.
“I was raised in the church and so I knew all the stories and I thought, well, how hard can this be?” recalled Collinsworth. “When I opened the curriculum to begin to prepare for that class, I realized I might know the stories, but I didn’t know theology.”
Collinsworth changed course, enrolling at SMU’s Perkins School of Theology and getting her master’s degree in Theology.
