Thanks to random.org, we’ve chosen 3 winners–Bonnie, Pat, and Nancy–all who’ve been notified and are just a few days away from receiving a beautiful holiday wreath.
My Dad just turned 86 this past Sunday. He and Mom live in a quiet friendly neighborhood on Deer Point Lake in Panama City, FL, nearly 1300 miles from me. MapQuest says it’s a 20 plus hour drive.
Mom and Dad have had their share of health issues these last couple of years and aren’t as active in the kitchen as they used to be. That’s why I’m grateful they have nice neighbors. At least two or three times a week, Sharon and Norm from down the street bring supper. Mom has dubbed them her “Meals on Wheels.”
If my parents didn’t have friends who brought them regular meals, they’d for sure be needing a little help from Meals on Wheels Association of America (MOWAA) the oldest and largest national organization whose mission is to eliminate hunger among seniors. Lindsay Olives believes in MOWAA too and are donating proceeds from their Handmade Olive Branch Holiday Wreaths to this worthy organization.
Lindsay Olives has also given us three holiday wreaths to give away this season. Made from olive, bay, and eucalyptus branches, they can be hung on an interior or exterior door or used as a table decoration as seen above. To enter this contest, simply complete the following statement: this holiday season I will do my part for people in need by…
Posting deadline is this Friday, December 3rd at 6:00 PM Eastern Time. Winners will be announced by 9:00 AM Eastern Time on Monday, December 6th.
If you’re not one of the lucky winners, however, and would still like a wreath, they’re very reasonable—$30 for a 14-inch one, $35 for an 18-incher (plus shipping) with delivery until December 31, 2010. You can order at www.lindsayolives.com or call (800) 765-2029.
Let the responses begin!
This Holiday Season I will do my part for people in need by giving as much as I can. I will also volunteer at our local food bank.
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by, volunteering to help my daughter’s fourth grade class make their Rock-a-thon a success by – donating money, shopping for & the wrapping gifts and then delivering the gifts that will go to needy families and children with cancer.
This holiday season… every activity I participate in intended to benefit those in need will be a reminder that those needs continue beyond the holidays. Each pie or mitten or food donation is a pledge to keep my eyes open and my heart soft and my hands willing all year ’round.
this holiday season I will do my part for people in need by…
donating food to the local food bank/Samaritan House when the CP Holiday Train comes to town!
This holiday season I will do my best to help people in need bt helping those around me. I have a friend who is taking care of her 3 nephews, as well as her own baby. I plan to anonymously give a Walmart card to her to help with Christmas. I plan on signing it: From: Santa!
Merry Christmas
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by…sending much needed supplies to the soldiers in Iraq & Afghanistan and we are also participating in Angel Tree.
. . .by donating goods to the food pantry, and buying some toys to donate through the angel tree at my church. . .and tossing some $ into those Salvation Army buckets!
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by Giving what I can to the local charities that support local families with food and clothing
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by donating what I can to the Clarence “Chip” Hoosier Food Pantry.
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by organizing an Adopt-a-Family effort at my workplace. I will also do my part in teaching my children that Christmas is about giving and plan to have them help me buy and wrap toys for needy kids.
I will help do my part for people in need by helping coordinate a holiday gift/food drive at the school where I work.
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by donating toys and clothes for the angel tree at church and to the collection for a family at work. Happy Holidays everyone!
I hope to buy a lap top for a child at http://laptop.org
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by donating to the local boys’ and girls’ home.
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by taking my son’s 1st grade class to sing carols and pass out cookies at the local nursing home.
I believe that we need to do for others all year long. People are often not remembered at other times of year. I chop food once a week for an organization that delivers food to those who are not able to shop or cook for themselves. I have participated in Bowling for Turkeys. (Not us, the bowlers, but turkeys that are donated to a local soup-kitchen.)
A turkey for each strike bowled. (They even give strikes for 8 & 9 pins down in the first try.)
This year the Woman’s club is donating school supplies to the local high school.
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by participating in teh angel tree at church, giving all my extra change to the bell ringers, and contributing to the hat mitten tree at my children’s school. These are just a few of the simple things that I will do to show my children that everything counts.
By helping at our annual community center’s holiday gift/food drive for
neighbors in need.
this holiday season I will do my part for people in need in various ways. Our church also has an Angel tree program that my family will be contributing to, and my kids’ school is doing a food drive for the needy.
signing up to buy a gift for a needy child!
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by continuing our tradition of picking names from the Angel Tree and doing my best to provide a wonderful Christmas for a family. My whole family gets involved in the shopping and selection of gifts, and because my husband travels a great deal for work he can trade in airline and hotel points for everything from video game consoles to gift cards.I take advantage of coupons and buy one-get one sales and try to provide a cartload of groceries. We love thinking that we’ve helped put joy in a child’s Christmas and peace in a parent’s heart.
this holiday season I will do my part for people in need by choosing a child from the angel tree at church and providing Christmas gifts for them!
This holiday season I have given food to our local food pantry, will buy a gift for a child from our church angel tree and help a local family with meals.
I will do my part this holiday season by donating food to MUST Ministries, donating toys for Toys for Tots, and also choosing a child from my church’s angel tree. Blessings to all this holiday season.
I will be donating to the Salvation Army, St. Jude and the local food bank as well.
My sister and I sponsor a family in need through our church. We provide a complete Christmas dinner and 2-3 gifts for each of the family members.
I will do my part this holiday season by shopping for several families in need. My son’s class is collecting pjs to give away. My dauther’s class has adopted a needy family. At church, I am part of a group that is buying household things and toys for a single mom with three kids. This is the season of giving and I love it!
I am assistant costume designer and co-director of my church’s Christmas pageant, for which 100% of the proceeds go toward supporting Appalachian families in need.
I belong to a club that adopts several families and we gather food and gifts for these families. We also provided a meal for Habitat for Humanity.
It is my tradition to give $$ to the local Salvation Army kettle, as well as donating to the local food pantry or kitchen.
I will do my part this holiday season by giving gifts that spread joy, like goats from the Heifer Foundation and cards through Unicef.
For this holiday season, my family will volunteer at our local food bank and donate gifts to a needy family trough our church,
I will give as much as I can, provide gifts for our church’s angel tree and try to influence as many as I can with my joyful and wonder-filled-advent attitude.
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by donating toy’s and blankets that my kids and family do not need or use anymore.
We’re a collection point for Toys for Tots, we’re a drop off point for a local church’s food pantry, we’re collecting for MDA, and Mc Donalds and the local Boy Scout Troop is setting up camp on our porch for their Christmas fundraiser. That’s a start.
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I will do my part this Holiday season by organizing an Adopt-a-Family program at work (I already to this personally) and volunteer at an animal shelter on my week off.
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by… volunteering as a reiki therapist at a cancer clinic.
… participating in the Adopt-a-family program at our church. We can buy gifts for the children and help provide a meal.
opening my home to someone who needs a friendly face.
This Holiday Season I will do my part for people in need by donating food and gifts and helping to assemble food baskets at my church.
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by… participating in Operation Christmas Child. My kids love making the shoeboxes.
donating to toys for tots
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by shopping for and donating to Toys for Tots! At my office we have a Holiday gift tree and also a food drive. Now that my kids are grown and gone, shopping for others in need has become one of my favorite parts of the holiday season.
…buying an Angel Tree gift for a child who’s parent is in prison.
his holiday season I will do my part for people in need by voluntering at my local food pantry
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by cooking meals at home and bringing lunches to work….the money saved by doing this instead of eating out will be added to our annual donation to the foodbank.
This holiday season I will do my part for people in need by purchasing gifts for children of progress house in my community and donating food to their Christmas meal.
We collect canned goods at work to donate to our local food pantry and will be doing that again this year.
This Christmas our family is going to adopt a family staying at the Ronald McDonald House by Children’s Hospital or donate from the wish list of needs that they have there at the house.