Dec 28
“Truly He taught us to love one another, His law is love and His gospel is peace.” After breakfast and presents at home, we headed downtown to spread a little Christmas cheer to our local brothers and sisters in the hopes that they would know this is a day of celebration and not merely “December 25th”… …
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Aug 04
A sincere and humble thank you to friends and family that once again came out to support “backpacks from the heart“ including newcomers Allen and his children which did a phenomenal job on their first outing. There were mostly new faces this year though a couple were recognizable and all were overly appreciative albeit surprised …
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Apr 11
The New Lab in Deland gathered their collected items this morning, as other offices are doing in other cities and states…and I have to say I am both humbled and truly amazed. The ask was for just some coloring books, crayons, and candy for the local Pediatric Cancer center so that the kids could have …
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Dec 25
Christmas coming a day early down here for the homeless as a shared YouTube video gave us the conceptual idea to see if we can do the same to spread a little bit of God‘s love here this holiday season…when the gift wrap was made visible, the crowd quickly emerged and sadly our gifts were …
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Jul 29 2017
At it early this morning – “phase one” of this year’s efforts, handing out 40 backpacks to brothers and sisters in need in downtown Orlando. We saw some familiar faces as well as many new ones, and while we upped the number of backpacks this year by almost 30%, we didn’t even make it the …
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Jul 28 2017
It’s that time of year and Grace & Tristan were busy again this evening, packing up backpacks for distribution to the homeless in the morning. Amazing support and encouragement from friends on this endeavor…some exciting news coming VERY soon. Blessings abound with a circle of friends that are SO good hearted and generous – “thank …
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Jul 30 2016
Another amazing year – brothers and sisters hopefully filled with even a bit of hope, coupled with the knowledge that they’re not alone as they work through they’re struggles…they will be in our prayers. On a personal note, we didn’t see Charles this year, a friendly homeless gentleman the kids and I have gotten to …
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Jul 29 2016
It’s Friday night and Grace & Tristan are busy helping “the old man” get backpacks filled for our outing to take care of the homeless tomorrow morning. I’m so very blessed to have kids that put up with all the philanthropic adventures I decide to bring their way…
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Aug 15 2015
Another successful year (unfortunately) where all 30 bags were handed out before we even made it around the entire lake… Oh, and the kids got to see their buddy Charles too…how cool!!!
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Aug 14 2015
It’s that time again… The $2.99 backpack promotion at Walgreen’s was in full effect and as such, the “2nd annual backpack fill-up for the homeless project” was underway. (Yeah, I know it’s not a real catchy name…) This year donations were graciously provided by Michael & Jim, allowing us to fill another 30 backpacks with …
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