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kd4jfd
Top Member
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 Posted - 09/29/2011 : 7:11:42 PM
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I'd like to invite everyone to participate in the Raymond Project.
"How?" you ask. It's easy. Talk with your system administrators and choose a needy family. Collect or buy clothing for the family. (Check with your local Laundromats for good used clothing that has been left behind.)
Give it to the administrator to give to the family, or do it yourself.
Bask in the warm fuzzies.
I brought this idea to my congregation in a message I preached on 9/11/11. (UMC lay speaker; my pastor could not stand to preach - literally! Ankle surgery)
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TylerB
Active Member
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Posted - 10/16/2011 : 09:23:43 AM
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| My family bought christmas presents for a needy family we knew, gave them to our school's counselor, she put them in their lockers addressed from "Santa" when I saw them walking down the hall the day they got them, they never looked happier over small things like a $3 makeup set or a $6 lego set, moral of this help the less fortunate and dont be so greedy appreciate the little things, they sure did. That was the biggest run on sentence ever. |
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Fathertime1968
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 10/16/2011 : 4:46:29 PM
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I absoultely love this idea...My family and I did something very similar to this with a family last year for Christmas. We gave them livingroom furniture, a table and chair set, and some children's beds with sheets and blankets....Which these very nice people didn't have at all. Thanks my family's efforts those kids no longer had to sleep on the floor with a sleeping bag anymore.
They had a table to eat at...And they had furniture to sit on in their living room instead of just the floor. It was awesome and very heartwarming to see people be so happy to have something that most of us take for granted...I plan to do that again this Christmas season...Nothing beats the feeling of helping others less fortunate than yourself!!!
I wrote my pastor an email about what we had done and he used it as his Christmas Eve sermon...As an example of extreme love...I strongly urge anyone that has not helped anyone less fortunate than themselves to try it if you get the chance...Its an awesome experience...It's also good for anyone suffering from depression from what I hear too.
Awesome Tyler B!!! Glad to hear that there is still some good happening in this world!!!! |
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TylerB
Active Member
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Posted - 10/23/2011 : 4:01:30 PM
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| I agree kids in my school come back after christmas, and its a "haha I got more than you, you're a useless person because you didn't get an lets say ipad." nowadays christmas is all about commercialism and you're supposed to GIVE to the less fortunate, not spend all you're time wondering what you're going to get. A LOT of the kids in the school i go to don't even get their over generous to their unappereciative kid's parents so much as a THANK YOU CARD!!! If everyone at our school did something similar to what my family did or volunteered to rake leaves or do other chores once or twice a week at an elderly person's home, the community wouldn't be so seperated in a town of 1900. |
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The Raymond Project
