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12-24-2004, 03:10 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Bedstuy, Brooklyn
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| Volunteering your christmas away
I'm gonna spend tomorrow working in a soup kitchen- I was just wondering if anybody else is giving up Holiday time with the family, in order to help the needy?
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12-25-2004, 05:49 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: SoCal
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| Not on Christmas Eve or Christmas day --- but took a group of around 9 11-14 year olds on a day trip into the local mountains (along with another adult). This was done to get the boys out the house so their parents could do Christmas shopping and have some time to themselves, and give the boys a day in the mountains and show them goldpanning. | |
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12-25-2004, 10:06 AM
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#3 | | Immortal
Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Heidelberg, GE
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| Not this year, but I volunteer pretty regularly.
You've moved up a couple of notches in my estimation.
MR
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12-25-2004, 10:43 AM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Bedstuy, Brooklyn
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| Ok- heading out now. This being the first time I'm ever going to have worked a soup kitchen, I'll report back with how it went.
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12-25-2004, 05:14 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: DC & Vancouver
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| I haven't volunteered my Christmas away yet. I've never missed a Christmas mass or spent time apart from my family during the holiday. Although, maybe I will once I move away or something. I used to volunteer a lot at day=camps during the summer, though.
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12-26-2004, 02:00 AM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The great U.S.ofA.
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| We went a year or two ago to help serve food and hand out gifts to the kids. I tell you what if you want a humbling experience and to feel the True Spirit of CHristmas, go volunteer for those of more need. I'll never forget it.
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12-26-2004, 05:20 AM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Canada
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| I have never volunteered on Christmas...but I do regular volunteer work for an Outdoor School for elementary school kids. I train highschool students to be counsellors for the Outdoor School, mostly. That's my main volunteer work, but in the past I have volunteered for the war veterans (selling poppies), unicef (not just collecting money like we do in elementary school), various summer camps (washing dishes, cleaning cabins...yes I volunteered to do the dirty work!). I wish I had time to do more volunteering; I really like it. | |
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