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Christmas 2017
Flyin6:
--- Quote from: nmeyer414 on November 29, 2017, 01:04:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: Flyin6 on November 29, 2017, 09:17:49 AM ---Well, thanks to a member donating $50 just now, we are off and running on the Christmas 2017 project. That's an early start to what has become a really cool thing we get to do here for some peeps we don't even know.
I think that many of you get about as excited about this as I do. Heck last year I was out in little girl stores buying stuff I had no idea about, and it was FUN! This, honestly is one of the coolest things we do from this RealMan corner of the interweb.
So, no decisions have been made yet but I do have some candidates for our giving this year. First is a place called "The Talbot House." It is a place where children of drug addicted parents who are in rehab get to stay or are cared for from afar while their parents try to fix their broken lives. There is a christmas gift tree out that I could pull names from, as in a gift per name and see what we could do to sow some happiness into an otherwise bleak situation.
Second on my list is a local old folks home. Living there are some guests who no longer have any family and are wards of the state just living out their days. I don't know how many people there are or how we might respond, but that would be a worthy cause. And frankly I DO NOT care about this policy or that which restricts things like not playing Christian music, or saying "Merry Christmas" or speaking of our savior. In a word, "To Hell With All That!" Well, a bit more than a word, but that's how I feel and given my size and fearsome (Ugly) look, no one will say anything when I raise a might word of praise for our king!
Next (and I may be leaning this way a bit, I know of a woman with two girls, one four, and one older, living in an apartment, whose worthless husband walked out abandoning his family. We could sow into that family like last year's effort.
So with no particular goal in mind, I guess we're off to the races to make a CHRISTmas ho-down for some needy people. Like always we will do it mostly anonymously and keep our generosity between us and our God (The way he likes it).
So boyz and girlies, if you are so so convicted, donate away and watch the amount grow over on the donations page. And check this out...a DP (Don Prediction): This year's amount will be more than last year's amount...and I bet (because the Lord likes this) it will be a bunch more!
Oh and if you have something to say as far as which direction you'd like to go with our giving this year, please share it here. Of course, like always, I won't pay any attention at all and end up doing whatever I think, but at least you'll think you influenced the decision. And that will make you a happy person!
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so if I understand correctly, these are the 3 options that you are putting up for recommendation/discussion/execution?
option #1 helping the children at "the Talbot House"?
option #2 spreading a little love and cheer for those that have no family left and trying to make their little bit of time left on this earth a little more merrier?
option #3 a mother of 2
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Sure, Nate, you can recommend, debate, discuss, recommend and so forth
Then I'll just do what I want to anyway ;-)
You know, know it all officer and all that!
On the serious side, these are the three options I had on deck coming into this, but then a generous member donated some money and started the whole thing before I really had a good plan. SO, like Bob said this is as good as anything, so why not?
And my fav is the momma with the two girlies with the crap-bag husband.
We could all get together and bring the girls presents then go beat the snot out of crap bag, then go out for some eggnog and good times! ;-))
Flyin6:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We now have $700 in the Christmas fund, Thank you all very much
I want to share with you what I just witnessed. If you look at the donations thread, you will note a new donation of $117, an amount that zinged our $583 all the way to $700
I will never share who gives what, that should be between the giver and the Lord, with me only acting as the clerk as it were. But I know the couple who gave that $117, and they don't have very much at all to live on or to give. They are strong in the Lord and live by faith. They were blessed a tiny bit financially and chose to give the money to someone they never met to be spent on someone they have no knowledge about.
If that isn't living by faith, then I don't know what is!
It is such an honor for me to serve here on this website with so many good people. It really does make me feel great just witnessing you all living your faith out here in plain sight.
In your service...
Don
Flyin6:
^^^ Sorry, lost it right there! :facepalm:
I'm better now :wink:
Now you numbskulls get back to doing whatever you were doing
Move out!
Flyin6:
OK, here is what I learned about the mother with the two daughters.
I have reports that they have no beds. They each have a cheap mattress which is on the floor. No bed, no box springs, nada.
I am not sure that both of them still live there. Following the father leaving, one of the girls may have gone as well. Either with her dad, or to a grandparent. I don't know just yet, but will find out shortly.
So as an interim plan, I was thinking of buying both of them a bed set. Get some girly bed and some decent mattresses and have them delivered anonymously. Then if money allows, get a couple gifts as well.
Beyond that, should we have more money, I think we could reach out to children in need and meet them at their particular point of need and fix whatever we could in their lives.
Just sharing thus far. We have $700 to spend, but I suspect we sill see much more than that. To serve others is the way of Jesus
Bigdave_185:
What method of $ transfer are you doing this year?
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