Arrangement for harvest festival

Beautiful arrangement Doreen

Hi pipsqueak, thanks for the comment, I have not spoken to you before!! OH yes I see you are a rearly new mwmber, WELCOME

Lovely. Our harvest festival is mostly veggies, and the ladies make a soup lunch with it, which we pay for - then the money is sent off for good causes.

That is lovely Doreen.....

There is a mixture of grow and bought things that come in and id distributed to the needy ad elderly,

Stunning arrangement! How nice of you =) ...I've been busy cutting out fleece scarves with a friend for the same reasons....so many that are without simple things we take for granted!

yhrar thosndsof peopl in this world that could not imagin a world that we take for granted

I have friends over in Africa (Mozambique) they're from Canada, but they go for 9 months out of the year to work in the orphanages. There are so many children there without parents...she says almost like there is a whole generation of people missing. Her first time over there she said all she & her daughter could do was cry over the poverty.

From our Church we send all orts of things out, A tractor went a few weeks ago and a gruip of our members are off out next Sunday to an Orphanage that we have set up taking suit cases full of things and we have just been filling shoe bobxes for all ages for Christmas along with money donations.
We can only try to help but I think we need o educate the governing agents out ther, seems the poor get poorer and the rich don't care as long as they ar OK. Ooop's I am on my soap box Sorry!!.
Keep up the good work.

It's truth though!! I'm glad you have people that actually go & bring stuff there because according to my friends some of the stuff shipped out gets stolen by customs or other shifty people & SOLD to the poor instead of donated. That really irritated me.

Mmmm no one actualy knows what gets to the people things are meant for, No matter which organiseation it is.

We had tins for harvest and the local people in need had them. We are doing shoe boxes at church as well. I think your alter looks wonderful with the harvest theme.

Yes, we do the shoe boxes, as well. We get told what age the child is, and whether it's a boy or a girl. Is this the same group doing them round the country, do you think?

Sounds like it Spritzhenry. They tell you what you can and can't put into the boxes there is a sticker for the right hand side whether for a boy or girl and they are for different age groups too. So far I have the wrapping paper on the box. Gerry did that as I am not to clever at wrapping up parcels.

We'll probably get ours tomorrow, then. I hope I don't get 'teenage boy' again!

I've chosen the teenager this time. I bought things for the 5 year olds last time

We do all family members, itis usualy just children but perhaps it is just started but this year all ages were included, "Well after all it is just not children who are needy" I chose a woman this time, all our boxes go off next week.
Yesterday "Sun", we waved off 12 people and aminibus full of donations, cases and cases full to africa one of our childrens orphanages, they should have landed by now, Exhausted no doubt.

Well done!!! I went out and bought presents to place in the shoebox today. It's tied up and ready to go back to church.

It's a shame it is only done for hristmas thoug, don't you think. As the items would only last for a short time.
Our people who went out Sunda had a deal from BA, having been granted access baggage alloted to them which was good. Goodnes knows how much it would have cost for all those caces.

I don't know where the shoeboxes got to - they weren't there on Sunday! I'll have ask next week.

You can always make up your own if you hae saved any from NEW SHOES. Maybe they have already gone from your Church??

No - I haven't missed a Sunday. It may be next week ??

New shoes? What are they? LOL.

Ha Ha ha HA... Yep--- But I did get some New Boots last week,
It was raining on the day we wen't shopping and I got wet feet, was just on the way to the shoe shop to buy some spray for them as they re sweyed, when I looked the sole was hanging off, Well they did me prowd,
Did manage to get somefor £9.99 same price i had paid for the old ones and it was the only Pr, they had to fit my BIG feet. (9)
Well unexpected, usualy make do and mend in this house Ha.

Well done! I seem to wear boots mostly - well, with dog-walking and gardening, it's not surprising, is it?

yes but it is nice to were something pretty now and again