christmas spirit

stonerock · Dec 18, 2016

this year we are helping a family of six, four childern ages 3-10 a couple toys for each child, food 1/2 honey baked ham, scalloped potatoes and sweet corn, then apple pie with ice cream and suger cookies with iceing and then 200 gal of propaine delivered friday the 30th. does anyone else help out the people that have less. we are always glad to help

Dick2 · Dec 18, 2016

We help out my nephew and 3 kids regularly through the year, with a special box for Christmas. He lost his wife through cancer, so raising the kids on the farm.

stonerock · Dec 18, 2016

Dick2 thats good we help a different family every year

Phil9N3667 · Dec 18, 2016

Not anyone specifically where we live, but at church we donate food/clothing/cash at times as needed to a local food bank ministry. The ministry helps locals/homeless and transients passing through. We have done some local folk in our immediate neighborhood who were in need. We also work Operation Christmas Child/Samaritan's Purse. I guess my biggest concern is some churches don't look close enough to home. Sorry for the long post. Merry Christmas folks!!

John730D · Dec 18, 2016

Yes, but we don't advertise it.

Galen Houk · Dec 18, 2016

Thank you for sharing your story. I think it encourages others to do the same. Our Gideon group helped provide for the family of someone who was in jail. It is great to help out others during Christmas. Sometimes people we don't even know.

Billy Shafer · Dec 18, 2016

I am the same way. I don't have much on SS and what odd shops I can round up. But I do help a family that I know.

JD Seller · Dec 18, 2016

We have helped directly in the past but now do it through the local church anomalously. With my wife's health we just can not be regular enough to do direct help anymore. I still think private help would be much better than all the government help being done. There would have to be incentives to make more businesses and well of individuals help but I think it could be done.

I also think that the help should be limited to those that do try to get by. Even those with health issues can usually do some thing for themselves. I think that the dignity of helping oneself would make many lives better. A help UP rather than a hand out.

wd9garymn · Dec 18, 2016

We sponsor a family through the local Rotary Club. different family each year. They give us a list of their needs and we buy what is listed plus a few extras with the Rotary delivering to the family.We, and our 3 kids, married and with family of their own all go together on the cost and forgo presents for each other. Been doing this for 6 years.

super99 · Dec 18, 2016

Yes, One of the guys at work has been off for 5 or 6 months with health issues. I asked the HR lady how he was doing. She said that his disability was messed up and he hadn't had a check in over a month. I felt that God was telling me to help them out. I asked the HR lady to find out how many kids he had, I wanted to make an anonimous donation so they could have a Christmas. After I found out he hadn't had a check for a while, I felt I needed to give them more. I donated a weeks pay, only she and I know who did it, I want it to stay that way. She said he cried when she gave him the cash. I slept well that night. I was in Menards Saturday and bought some toys and batteries and put them in the donation box. Chris

Kow Farmer · Dec 18, 2016

I have given food and cash money in the past, with the hope that it was well received. It is nice to read other people out there is still generous these days. Thank you for sharing.
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JMS/.MN · Dec 18, 2016

For years we had a "giving tree" at our church...pick an envelope and buy the suggested gift...ex: boy, 15, sweater, etc. It was handled through the social committee in our parish. Last couple of years, they switched to envelopes asking for various cash donations to the local food shelf. I liked the older system better- made it more personal to actually shop for the gift, even though we had no idea who the recipient was.

Tom OConnor · Dec 18, 2016

Years ago an old gentleman pulled in the driveway and asked if I was Al O'Connors son. When I said that I was he told me his name and a story about my Dad stopping to see him years before when he lived on a farm down the road from us. It was about a week before Christmas and Dad slipped him a hundred dollar bill and said I want you and your family to have a nice Christmas. He said that he told my Dad that he would never be able to repay him and my Dad said that he didn't ever want him to repay him, he just wanted everyone to have a nice Christmas. I have never forgotten that man and think of Dad's generosity ever since. My wife and I try to help people in need the year around but especially during the Christmas season.

James Williams · Dec 21, 2016

Just the other day,I went to our butcher shop and bought 5 lbs of each of country ham slices,pork chops,hamburger,short ribs,deer sauage and pork sauage and gave to a family

showcrop · Dec 21, 2016

We too help through our church in different ways. Though food and shelter are very important, ones soul is what is most important and that is where we put most of our emphasis, and efforts.

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