It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. In August, you ask? There’s a lot of work to do, I say.
The Mother Letter Project was born from a simple question: what would happen if one couple removed the material slant of Christmas and sought to infuse it with meaning? My wife and I explored what could happen if we created Christmas for each other and donated what we normally would have spent to those in need?
This year, we are encouraging you to ask the same question of yourselves and your families. It is our challenge. Will you forgo at least a portion of normal Christmas consumption and donate the difference to those in need?
But where will I donate the difference, you may be asking? Starting today, the Mother Letter Project will begin compiling a directory of charities where you can donate your Christmas change. Every Wednesday for the next month I will re-run this post and will ask readers to tell us those charities that they support. I will then compile the list into a master directory of sorts. A directory indicating the names of the various charities, those they serve, and how others can get in contact with them.
So, what are you waiting for? In the comments suggest charities that we should support, leaving us the inforamtion we need for the directory. And if you wish to leave a short story about your work with the charity, feel free to do so.
Involve yourself in changing the focus of Christmas this year. Involve yourself in the process of infusing Christmas with meaning, both for your family and for others in need. It will make this Christmas more memorable—and that’s my money back guarantee!
Now, let’s get to work! Who’s first?
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http://www.lupus.org/webmodules/webarticlesnet/templates/new_donatehow.aspx?articleid=199&zoneid=51
the Lupus Foundation is near and dear to me
My husband and I are asking friends and family members to give donations in our honor this year in lieu of a Christmas gift to Blue Ridge Women’s Center (www.blueridgewoman.org). BRWC is a non-profit, life-affirming ministry dedicated to ministering to women and their families in an unplanned pregnancy.
I’ve served in various staff and volunteer positions in ministries like this one for over nine years and have seen the mighty way God uses them to transform hearts and lives first hand. For six years now the Lord has honored me with the opportunity to serve on the staff of my local ministry in Roanoke, VA. I praise Him for giving me an opportunity to be His hands and feet to women in the process of making what may be the most important…most cruciall decision of their life…whether or not to give life to what they carry inside of their wombs.
Many women choose abortion because they feel they have no other choice. It is my priviledge to offer them truth in love as well as information and services designed to help her make this important choice.
It’s a small thing, but I like to get my kids involved with Operation Christmas Child with Samaritan’s Purse. It’s something that can really get excited about and help with.
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/
Mercy Ministries Canada. My heart is there and, I believe, after spending just 2 minutes with these brave women, yours will be too!
We provide opportunities for young women to experience God’s unconditional love, forgiveness, and life-transforming power. So we assist any young woman who is seeking freedom from life-controlling problems. We serve young women aged 19-28 struggling with life-controlling problems such as eating disorders, self-harm, abuse and neglect, drug and alcohol addictions, depression, and unplanned pregnancy through our residential, preventative, and transitional services. Many of the girls who come into our program are facing a combination of debilitating circumstances and have been in other treatment facilities with unsuccessful long-term results.
We value every young woman’s future, including those that have been deemed hopeless by society, doctors, or their families. We are committed to helping them reach their full potential by offering are which is designed to address the whole person: spiritual, physical, and emotional.
Really, it’s amazing. The girls here inspire me to no end. What they have endured and yet to still be praising Jesus? AMAZING.
If you want more info, watch the video here (bring a handkerchief!) http://www.mercyministriesmedia.com/video.html or visit http://www.mercyministries.ca.
Thanks, Seth. I appreciate any opportunity to tell SOMEONE, ANYONE about this group of women.
S.
I love Samaritan’s Purse and Blood, Water Mission.
We love Tepeyac Family Center. It’s a pro-life, non-profit OB/GYN practice in Northern VA, outside of DC. They treat any woman who walks through their doors, insured or not. And they value LIFE. After my first miscarriage, I went to see them, broken and bruised by the callous treatment I received from my then-doctor. Dr B. gave me a huge hug, cried with me, and gave me respect and love. I wouldn’t have my twins today if the doctors hadn’t valued my 20 wk babies when I went into pre-term labor. They fought the system, tried unheard of things, and pushed the limits to save my boys. And they succeeded. They always tell me, “We’re using our heads, but we’re constantly on our knees in prayer.”
These doctors are passionate about pro-life healthcare and are a worthy cause to consider this Christmas. http://www.tepeyacfamilycenter.com/
http://www.somaly.org
Somaly Mam works in Cambodia to end human trafficking. She risks her life daily to free women and children from sexual slavery.
If you have never read her book - The Road of Lost Innocence - please help support her cause and purchase a copy. I cried tears from the uttermost depths of my soul. My heart breaks for all of the children. . .some as young as 5 years old that are forced into an unimaginable hell that they have to call life.
I have decided to make all of my family member Christmas gifts this year. As a family, we plan to make a generous donation to help her and her cause!
Be Blessed & thank you so much for doing this!
Amy Honestly
You guys are unbelievable. What an idea.
Any readers that sew , or know of someone who does, school groups, youth groups, etc.
making pillowcases , super easy and inexpensive, for children with cancer during their stays in hospital.
It’s addictive, and a way to help within your own community or elsewhere
http://conkerrcancer.org/
Most years my husband and I have focused any giving to overseas work, but this year we really feel the need to give within our own local community (SW Missouri/North Arkansas). I’m anxious to see options we have out there.
Northwest Haiti Christian Mission - I keep trying to summarize all the things they do, but there’s just no way to do it. Check them out! http://www.nwhcm.org
http://thelizlogelinfoundation.org/
I love many that have mentioned already!!!
But, one that is closer to home for us is Target Dayton Ministries. It’s a church for the homeless - as in their members are people who currently are or formerly homeless. It’s is a true testament to God’s work in every walk of life!
I shared about it a while ago at my site. There is a great video in there with the choir singing. It’s so moving….
http://mommysnacks.net/2008/12/target-dayton/
Ones that I love:
Heifer.org: help buy animals for 3rd world country families
Samaritan’s Purse: Good Christian org, gives underprivileged kids Christmas presents
Near & dear to me:
International Mosaic Down Syndrome Org
Aid for Austistic Children Foundation
March of Dimes
Gospel for Asia has actually had a Christmas catalog in the past where you can buy a family a pair of goats or something. Pretty neat.
http://www.gfa.org/
I love this idea. I have to second Amber and say Operation Christmas Child is an amazing project! Since Samaritan’s Purse is located here in Boone, NC, I have several friends who work so hard in this ministry, packing boxes, producing videos, and actually taking the boxes to disadvantaged children around the world. They have such wonderful stories!
I also love Wine To Water (http://winetowater.org/). In their own words, “providing clean water to needy people around the world. Over 1 billion people in the world today lack access to adequate water and sanitation. We are devoted to fighting this epidemic. Wine symbolizes fortune in our society. Our goal is to give the fortunate population an opportunity to fight for those who can’t fight for themselves.”
What a great idea!
We lost my husband’s mother three months ago and have asked for donations to the Alzheimers Association in lieu of flowers and other memorials. We’ll be donating to them this holiday season.
http://www.alz.org/index.asp
I’d like to recommend Wycliffe Bible Translators. My parents worked for them for a while, and they are a wonderful organization. They promote the gospel through Bible translation for people groups who have no Bible in their heart language. In the process, they often develop written languages for people groups who have none, teach people to read and write in their language, and provide other literature and training in things such as farming and hygiene.
http://www.wycliffe.org/
Remember, a small ministry my husband’s boss runs out of his law office to provide medical care, supplies, and encouragement to people all over the world who have been affected by persecution, the wives and children of martyred Christians. You can see some of their current projects here.
We have rearranged our lives and budget to support The Persecuted Church monthly. They are not working under a non-profit umbrella called House of Treasure. (There’s a donate button on my blog).
James and I have done something similar nearly every year we have been married. In fact, I started a whole second blog dedicated to MAKING gifts rather than spending money in the malls. I’ll gladly put forth the effort to create something with my own hands and put my money somewhere it’s actually useful. (And, no, I don’t consider paying 90% markup for mall crap useful).
Departing soapbox now.
A wonderful idea. Go here http://www.fistulafoundation.org/ to read about The Fistula Foundation. And here http://jumpingtandem-ne.blogspot.com/2009/05/from-despair-to-dignity.html to understand its importance to me.
Be blessed!
In San Diego I appreciate the work of Presbyterian Urban Ministries : http://www.pumsd.org which I found out about when I worked for the Presbyterian Church. My husband is now the director there, and the focus of this small group (staff of 4, with around 40 volunteers) is to assist the acutely homeless in a Christ-centered way that honors their dignity and selfhood while seeking to give them a hand up so that they can find the road ahead instead of declining into chronic homelessness.
Their budget was cut by 5% this year and , but they are seeing 130+% increase in need. As of June they had seen 3600 clients, compared to 4500 in all of 2008 and had given out 177 pairs of steel-toed boots compared to 39 in all of 2008. (The steel-toed boots are for those who have found jobs but cannot afford the protective footwear that is required in order to work).
We try to save twenty five dollars somewhere every week and donate to Kiva. The children read through entrepreneurial proposals and select which family they’d like to loan to. Instead of letting birthday money sit in their rooms, they can loan it out for now… It can change the world, a family… and then they can choose to reloan again, or withdraw the funds…
http://www.kiva.org/
I can’t cheer you folks on wildly enough!
Let’s change the world and us….
884 million people in the world don’t have access to clean water, and 2.6 billion people don’t have access to a safe toilet ..
Over 6,000 children die daily due to water and sanitation related diseases .. this is just not ok.
Water For People is working to find sustainable solutions to this crisis. Please consider supporting the work. http://www.waterforpeople.org
Thanks
*Compassion International http://www.compassion.com
*Voice of the Martyrs http://www.persecution.com
*Tamar Center and Pattaya Slum Ministry http://www.ywamthai.org/pattaya/tamar.html
*Bridges to the Nations http://www.bridgestothenations.com
*Alpha House http://www.alphahouseinc.net
*Knox Area Rescue Ministry http://www.karm.org
*Compassion International http://www.compassion.com
*Knox Area Rescue ministries http://www.karm.org
*Alpha House http://www.alphahouseinc.net
*Tamar Center and Pattaya Slum ministry
http://www.ywamthai.org/pattaya/tamar.html
*Voice of the Martyrs http://www.persecution.com
*Bridges to the Nations http://www.bridgestothenations.com
These some of the ministries that are on mine and my husband’s rotating giving list.
We donate and work with a local Christian school in our community, whose vision is : To provide quality Christ-centered education in partnership with the home and church that prepares students as lifelong learners to fulfill the Great Commission in diverse vocations with all their heart, soul, mind and strength.
http://www.mlca.us
My daughter has Rett Syndrome, so here are a couple organizations that mean a lot to me:
http://www.rettsyndrome.org
http://www.girlpower2cure.org
Can you hear the cry of injustice? A child is left alone with no parents to comfort them. They are being exploited and abused with no one to protect him or her. Can you hear the cry of the lonely, hungry and neglected children of the world? We have heard their cry!
Show Mercy International has heard the cry of injustice and we are responding to that cry. It is our desire to express God’s love in both word and deed. In many practical ways, we provide a home, food, education, clothing and medical care to orphaned and abandoned children living primarily in Uganda. With our words, we encourage these children and others to believe that they too were created for a special, unique purpose in this life.
We encourage children to pursue the passions and dreams that are inside of them. We encourage them to rise above their current situations and to reach out in love to their neighbors. We encourage these future leaders to make a difference in the world around them and to believe that they can help bring positive changes. We also provide opportunities for others with the same values, passions and desires to express them through serving in both short- and long-term missions opportunities.
Show Mercy partners with local churches and NGOs (nonprofit organizations) in Uganda who we have developed trusting relationships with. We take seriously our responsibility to assure that the funds donated to Show Mercy International are used in effective ways to accomplish the above goals and values. We work in partnership with individuals and groups who have already proven to be financially responsible and have demonstrated character and integrity. We are helping those who are already assisting the poor in their own communities with their limited resources. We provide assistance so they can achieve their objectives.
Together we are making a difference!
http://www.showmercy.org
Can you hear the cry of injustice? A child is left alone with no parents to comfort them. They are being exploited and abused with no one to protect him or her. Can you hear the cry of the lonely, hungry and neglected children of the world? We have heard their cry!
Show Mercy International has heard the cry of injustice and we are responding to that cry. It is our desire to express God’s love in both word and deed. In many practical ways, we provide a home, food, education, clothing and medical care to orphaned and abandoned children living primarily in Uganda. With our words, we encourage these children and others to believe that they too were created for a special, unique purpose in this life.
We encourage children to pursue the passions and dreams that are inside of them. We encourage them to rise above their current situations and to reach out in love to their neighbors. We encourage these future leaders to make a difference in the world around them and to believe that they can help bring positive changes. We also provide opportunities for others with the same values, passions and desires to express them through serving in both short- and long-term missions opportunities.
Show Mercy partners with local churches and NGOs (nonprofit organizations) in Uganda who we have developed trusting relationships with. We take seriously our responsibility to assure that the funds donated to Show Mercy International are used in effective ways to accomplish the above goals and values. We work in partnership with individuals and groups who have already proven to be financially responsible and have demonstrated character and integrity. We are helping those who are already assisting the poor in their own communities with their limited resources. We provide assistance so they can achieve their objectives.
Together we are making a difference!
sorry the website is:
http://www.showmercy.org
My favorite charity is the Children’s Shelter of Cebu. We (my husband and I, along with our 5 kids) have been personally involved with CSC for years. My husband and I visited CSC in 2004 and came to love it even more . . . we didn’t think it was possible to love a ministry more than we already loved CSC, but we did. They do a wonderful work for homeless, abandoned and orphaned children in the Philippines. They take in kids in need of a home and give them a place to live, a bed to sleep in, 3 healthy meals a day, an education, tons of love and an opportunity to be adopted. CSC does not split up siblings groups, so families can stay together. The biggest sibling group that they have placed for adoption is 7, I believe, and right now they have a sibling group of 9 in their care that they hope and pray will someday also be able to be adopted. I could go on and on, but I’ll try and limit myself. Check out more about CSC on their website at http://www.cscshelter.org.
Thanks so much for the opportunity to share about this wonderful ministry with others!
Blessings,
Shana in MN
One more thing . . . CSC also has a wonderful child sponsorship program called “foster friends” where you can help support (and become “friends”) with a child from CSC. For $25/month you will receive updates on (and, if they are old enough, letters from) your sponsored child. It’s a great program — similar, in a way, to many other wonderful sponsorship programs like Compassion International.
http://www.houseofdreamsorphanage.com
House of Dreams is the orphanage we run here in Cochabamba, Bolivia. We always appreciate a helping hand for our little dears.
This is such a cool idea!
Do you have Mocha Club on the list yet?
https://www.mochaclub.org/
“Mocha Club is about connecting your community with our community in Africa. You start by giving up $7 a month, the cost of 2 mochas. And you get to pick where that money is going. We have many different ongoing projects around Africa - pick the one that YOU love. Then start your team so you can invite others to join you in making a difference! ”
If you have more questions, just let me know. I’ve been to Africa with Mocha Club and I work there part-time. It’s an AMAZING organization that is make a huge difference with just a little bit of money.
Thanks!!
Tell Amber hey for me. Love that girl.
I support Compassion International (compassion.com), Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (bcefa.org) and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (http://www.pedaids.org/)
Hey… I know someone in that city…
I recently became a supporter of The Mocha Club (http://blog.mochaclub.org/). $7 a month can change a life, sustain a life and save a life. Just $7. That’s less than the cup of 2 Mocha’s. Seriously this organization ROCKS!
“What are you passionate about? Choose the project that resonates with you and start your “team”. You’ll learn how to invite friends to your team, and they can join you at $7/month. Watch your efforts multiply as your team grows.
All of our work is through trained indigenous leaders: Africans developing Africa. Through them, you’ll receive monthly updates on exactly where your money is going, including video, podcasts and blogs.”
(from their website)
I love what Dogs for the Deaf is doing for deaf people and stray dogs! This non-profit organization gets most of their dogs from shelters and trains them as Hearing Dogs, Canine Assistance Dogs, and if the dogs don’t make the grade they are given as Companion Dogs. There is no cost to the person receiving a dog. Check out their site for wonderful testimonies from those who benefit from this organization.
The website for Dogs for the Deaf is http://www.dogsforthedeaf.org
i love all of the contributions here, and love that this list is eclectic! to add a couple of faith-based organizations:
Heavenly Treasures - an organization that uses micro enterprise development to help empower the poor and oppressed by teaching them to make high-quality handicrafts from local and indigenous materials. Their vision is to help families and communities that will help change their economic situation and in turn, impact them spiritually as well.
heavenlytreasures.org
Nightlight - NightLight is an international organization committed to addressing the complex issues surrounding trafficking and prostitution by catalyzing individual and community transformation. NightLight’s vision is to offer intervention to sexually exploited women and children, to enable them to discover their dignity, and to provide a program of holistic transformation, empowering them to live and work in their community.
nightlightinternational.org
(sorry, didn’t know how to insert the hyperlinks)
I work wtih Postpartum Support International. http://www.postpartum.net PSI has an army of volunteer coordinators who provide first-line support and sleuth out appropriate resources to women who are struggling with Postpartum Depression. I’m a coordinator and the more involved I get the more incredible I find PSI to be.
The other charity that is VERY important to me is Lungevity. http://www.lungevity.org This organization supports Lung Cancer Research, Social support, and awareness. I know Lung Cancer doesn’t seem at first glace to be very sympathetic, but when you consider that over 50% of those newly diagnosed are non-smokers or former smokers it’s a little alarming. This is a disease that is grossly underfunded largely because of the stigma involved. It’s also extremely deadly. It’s the leading cancer killer killing more individuals per year than breast cancer, prostate cancer, and kidney cancer combined. I lost my Mom to this disease 4 years ago. She was 58.
Oh! And don’t forget the International Justice Mission! http://www.ijm.org
On the Rock Ministries!!! This is a indoor skate park and coffee house… a powerful place impacting a variety of youth!
http://www.therockbville.com/index.html
More than 33 million kids worldwide do not have parents. Kidsave, http://www.kidsave.org, works to match children who have little chance of being adopted to loving families. Their summer program has a 93% success rate of finding homes for these orphans. Their stories would touch anyone’s heart.
http://hungryforlife.org/
I would love to see Hannah’s Prayer Ministries added to your list. This isn’t an orginzation that provides material needs, but rahter a support network for those who do not know where to turn in the crisis of their family building plans taking a detour through the grief of infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death. Infertility and the losses of our first eight chidren (to miscarriage and ongoing failed adoption attempts) left me desperate, depressed and even suicidal.
Even after I conceived our son who became our first “take-home baby” I continued to carry the scars of the previous 7 years of fears and expectation of loss, compounded by pregnancy complications and early health issues after his birth. After two more miscarriages, we endured two more very high risk and scary pregnancies, and are now in awe to be the parents of three healthy, living miracles. (Medically, my childbearing possibilities are now forever behind me, so the physical journey is past, but the emotional changes through the process have left permanent marks upon my heart.)
Hannah’s Prayer saw me through this entire joureny and was a litteral life-saver for me as I realized I was not alone in this terrible loss, that others understood, and that others had not only survived but moved on to full and fulfilling lives, with our without children. I’ve heard the same kinds of changed-lives stories over and over from other Hannah’s Prayer members over the years. All services are offered free of charge and there have never been paid staff members in the 14+ years this international outreach has been running. Please find out more at http://www.Hannah.org
I really like CompassionArt!
International Disaster Emergency Service, based in Kempton, IN responds to emergencies worldwide including hurricane victims in the USA. They have established feeding programs in orphanages around the world. I have found them to be trustworthy stewards of my gifts.
International Disaster Emergency Service responds to emergency needs around the world. Feeding programs in orphanges provide food for starving children. I have supported them for over 25 years and find them to be trustworthy stewards of my gifts. Give food and hope to hungry kids!
i’m so sorry; i don’t have time to read thru all the comments, so if these have been mentioned, sorry to repeat (but it’s proof they’re brilliant)!
i have supported To Write Love on Her Ams and Water is Basic. The former is, according to their webiste(twloha.com): To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.
and WiB builds wells in the Sudan to provide drinkable water to a people doing without such a basic need.
thanks for a beautiful vision.
charity:water (www.charitywater.org
Sophia’s Heart (www.sophiasheart.org)
Child Cry NYC (childcrynyc.org)
Medicine River Wildlife Centre
http://www.medicineriverwildlifecentre.ca/
Siloam Mission
http://www.siloam.ca
Rescue Ink
http://www.rescueink.org/
Lady Bug Foundation
http://www.ladybugfoundation.ca/
That’s four more
Bright blessings!
I support a few different ministries:
First, I can not say enough about compassion international. I have first hand seen the work they do. I have met and traveled with LDP students (graduates from Compassion Sponsorship). They’re work is amazing!
Second- Real Hope For Haiti- Lori and Licia and their father are amazing people who are getting their hands dirty.
http://www.realhopeforhaiti.org
I love donating to kiva.org as the microlending process means my monies get used over and over and over …. check it out … kiva.org
The Teen Action and Support Center (TASC) is a local non-profit located in Rogers, Arkansas. TASC is a unique organization because its emphasis is on offering positive programming and services for youth. This organization has served the community in four main ways all of which are free to the public:
- free emotional care (licensed counseling for teens & their families)
- physical resources (food, clothing, etc. through Mary’s Closet)
- over 1500 volunteer hours thus far in 2009 through their community service learning program
- individual assistance for pregnant and parenting teens (First Steps)
TASC is funded solely from private support, and only has two staff members. This organization is one that truly gives back to today’s youth by offering positive proactive support.
http://www.teenaction.org
James 1:27…pure & undefiled religion is…to visit/help the orphans and widows in their distress. The Shepherd’s Fold USA is just that, a public charity, though very small, that supports an orphanage in India that began simply as one man, one family, taking in deserted and homeless AIDS orphans, literally plucking them from the streets & garbage heaps. Check our website: http://www.shepherdsfoldamily.com
So, I’m in a bit of a rush due to a child that feels stalling at bedtime is totally acceptable.
SO, without expanding with links and such…
Compassion International
International Justice Mission
Liz Logelin Foundation
International Justice Mission
Seriously, he just asked why he can’t go outside right now. A half hour after bedtime. Sheesh.
OK. So I said IJM twice. I’m distracted.
I meant World Wide Village
National Foundation for Ectodermal Dysplasia
Couple thoughts…
- Local to NW Arkansas and a little selfish (http://www.cobblestoneproject.org, to include Laundry Love Project, Shear Kindness, point8, the Harvest, Our Step, iPROMise, Student’s Hands), every $ goes back into community.
- http://www.Just4One.org (Human Trafficking, Orphans and Poverty)
love Charity Water, IJM, World Vision, Compassion Intl, A Child’s Right, TheIdeaCamp.com
One of my favorite organizations is Room to Read (www.roomtoread.org). They partner with local communities around the world to build schools, provide books, and create scholorships for girls. Wonderful organization.
I came across your site while searching for craftivism projects. We are looking to give back after being on the receiving end for a year. Our youngest child has Cancer. She is 3 years old. We have been supported by a number of organizations throughout her first year of treatment. Cancer is hard to accept, but going through it alone would be impossible!
Thank you to the Children’s Cancer Center in Tampa FL, the American Cancer Society, Giving Hope through Faith, and many more who support our little angels!
We give to many of the charities listed above.
A few other very worthy mentions:
Food for the Hungry - Christian relief organization, similar to World Vision, “ending poverty through relationships”
Operation Smile - secular organization that donates surgery to repair cleft palates and facial deformities for children in poverty around the world
Live Strong (The Lance Armstrong Association) - cancer research and support
(Dianjiang Kids International) where special needs orphans in XinXiang Henan get one on three attention and care from trained nannies. It makes such a difference in their lives!
The Teen Action and Support Center - http://www.teenaction.org
Offers free and confidential services to teens and their families.
They believe in positive programs - not “troubled teens” - they believe all teens are valuable and amazing. They truly are an amazing charity promoting positive chances for today’s youth.
Hope Aid International — small, grassroots, 100% goes directly to projects, no admin withheld….
http://www.hopeaid.org
I don’t know if you’re still taking suggestions for charities, but we would love to see the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research added to your list. Prader-Willi Syndrome is a rare genetic disorder affecting 1 in 15,000 people in this country. Our sweet son Dean has PWS and there currently is no cure. FPWR is a wonderful organization led by brilliant and dedicated parents, advocates, scientists, and health care professionals who are striving to help those with PWS live full, independent lives. Please consider this cause.
Absolutely still taking suggestions. We are going to wrap these up into a little bit of Christmas Change… Keep looking.
Agree with Ali!! Please add to your list Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (USA) which is international. I also have a son Reagan who is six years old with Prader-Willi Syndrome.
Fairhaven Rescue Mission feeds the souls of greater Cincinnati with physical food as well as spiritual food. Over the past 5 years, my husband and I have witnessed God working in these men who for all intensive purposes had been given up on.
This place pulls on my heartstrings!
http://www.drawnfromwater.org/
ouTside the boX - http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=172244503302&ref=ts
We (our family of 5) are celebrating Christmas 2009 ouTside the boX by giving gifts to families in the Philippines who would otherwise have no Christmas, but, most importantly will be the gift we give that is outside the box - the gift of knowing the reason why we celebrate Christmas. We will spend just over two weeks in the Philippines with ministries and families, sharing our hearts and gifts including the Bible in their language, toys, toothbrushes, soap, food, etc. as well as the gospel.