Leah’s Cafe

My friend Jo runs a non-profit organization for unwed mothers and single mothers just called. She wants to know whether I can take in a teenage girl who is 6 months pregnant for a week while they setup a place for her.

They started a help line that provide counseling for unwed mothers few months ago and the response was overwhelming. I think Jo underestimated the physical needs for shelters for this unwed mothers who are mostly teenage girls from dysfunctional families. While Jo is getting more volunteers to set up a shelter, she is calling us to help to take them in temporary.

Many of us who are middle class live in our comfort zone and never realize that they are many people who are destitute and need God unless we get involve with them. They are many ways one can get involved with a ministry that helping the marginalized groups of people in our society.

One way you can help is to get involve with the Car Donation Ministry (www.carangel.com) to help the single mothers, homeless, troubled teens, adult rehab and prison reform. You can Donate a Car and they will use it to raise fund to spear head projects for the groups of people they are involved with. The current project is using the car donations to raise fund for creating Free Children’s DVDs, anti-drug documentaries and distributing uplifting books into prisons.

Nowadays, people may not get much from selling their old cars and hence, find it more meaningful to do a good cause. Car Donations have become the choice of a lot of people considering the amount of work one has to deal with if they dispose off their cars to used car dealers. Sometimes, one end up wasting a lot of time plus the stresses of putting up ads, finding willing buyers and getting rid of the car. Why not get involve with a worthy cause and get help to dispose your car at the same time?

In addition, it will help you with saving in tax. You will receive your IRS tax deduction. Now, isn’t that a good reason? You help someone and at the same time, you get a tax deduction. On top of that, the Car Angel Ministries will take care of the paperworks.

I hope you will go over and learn more. If it compels you, please do share the link with your friends.

Do people still send and receive greeting cards? I have not been on both sides for a couple of years now, I thought I would start doing the cards thing again this year. Oh, boy, it’s hard to find unique and appropriate cards to send to business associates for the holidays. Then, I found the Gallery Collection, the mail order publisher of good quality greetings cards, they have a bunch of Business Christmas Cards that can be personalized.

The company has have recently involved with Soldiers Angels, the organization that provides aide and comfort to the men and women of the United States Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force and the Coast Guard and their families.

Well, disregard of our stands towards the wars, the soldiers deserved appreciation for their sacrifices and contributions. The Gallery Collection has donated greeting cards to be sent to each soldier for the Holidays. They also provide a blank card and envelope for the soldiers to write home. These cards will be included along with “care packages” sent by Soldiers Angels.

I recently bid on a pair of earrings and a pendant, and I won the auction. The auction was held to help to raise fund for girl’s pending surgery. She has a rare genetic disorder which caused cancer cells to grow in different parts of her body. She has lost her hearing and her eyesight is deteriorating too. Since I don’t really wear much of jewelry, I have donated the jewelry for her to raise more fund.

Her friends help to make the jewelry pieces, though they are really nice and one of a kind. They may take them too long to produce a piece of work. In order to raise enough fund in a short period of time, maybe they can also buy from a reputable wholesale jewelry supplier and sell them on Ebay to raise the medical fund. That would be faster, wouldn’t it?