Arriving late to volunteer was a huge aha moment and blessing

Ocoee High School and Publix Truck
Food For Families annual Thanksgiving morning tradition

 

Noel family volunteering Thanksgiving Day
We began this three holiday morning tradition the year before our son was born.

 

Food For Families annual Thanksgiving morning tradition
Arriving just after 9am, the Families needing help ran out before the food did

 

Arriving late to volunteer last week was a huge aha moment and blessing. We normally arrive around 8:00am and deliver big boxes of food to needy Families in West Orange County Florida on Thanksgiving morning.

In 14 years, we have never arrived as late as 9:00am, and what we discovered was awesome. The Families ran out before the food did. Hallelujah.

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Delivering Food For Families always puts things in perspective

home cooked meal laid out in kitchen
This meal was a special occasion… a weekend dinner at home

 

Delivering Food For Families always puts things in perspective. How can we have any worries in the world that could even remotely seem unbearable?

Food for Families stated in 1991 by Mark Anthony as part of The bread of Life Ministries in conjunction with Publix Supermarkets. About 1,200 Families in need are served two boxes of food and staples at Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving.

To simply be grateful for food, rather than presents, on Christmas morning. Can we imagine?

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Dear Son, delivering Food for Families for the 13th year

Thanksgiving traditions
Thanksgiving Day 2012… a Thanksgiving Day tradition since 2000

 

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a long line is a great sign… these are volunteers answering the call Thanksgiving morning

 

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impressive coordination between Bread of Life Ministries, Publix, and Ocoee High School

 

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just a portion of the 2,000+ boxes of food

 

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volunteers loading our van with big boxes of food

 

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stocked with food for five Families… time for the deliveries

 

Dear Son, delivering Food for Families for the 13th Thanksgiving Day in a row this morning. Yes, you’re 12, which means we started the tradition when you were three months old.

As you’ve grown, it seems this year may be the first day you look at this process with the realization that giving is receiving.

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Food For Families

Yesterday morning, as American Families celebrated Thanksgiving Day, many Families volunteered in different ways to help those less fortunate:

When When We Began In 1999, The Back Seat Was Empty
When When We Began In 1999, The Back Seat Was Empty
Two Lines Waiting Patiently
Two Lines Waiting Patiently
Getting Closer
Getting Closer
Getting Closer

Five Cars From Being The Last To Help

Five Cars From Being The Last To Help

Each One Was Loaded With 100's Of Pounds Of Food

Each Pallet stacked with 100’s of pounds of food.

Even though many arrived before 9AM, we did not get to deliver food to needy Families.

The blessing in this? There were so many people that came out to help, that volunteers were turned away.

May we always have a surplus of helpful volunteers.

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Life Savings Disappeared, Poof

But We Got A Window Washer In Exchange
But We Got A Window Washer In Exchange

 

Happy Thanksgiving. We’ll begin this Thanksgiving morning as we have for 11 years, delivering Food For Families. It’s a Christmas and Easter tradition as well.

Finding symbolic ways to create strategic traditions, to teach life lessons.

Without the repetition, the teaching, and the lesson, may get lost.

Adults need strategic traditions to teach the profoundly simple lesson that life is about two simple choices – to be thankful for everything, or to not be.

We were very sorry to see our life savings disappear.

But we are very thankful we had a life savings to spend.

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