Best Food Pantry Donationd for Holiday Baskets, Food Drives

Best Items to Donate to Thanksgiving and Christmas Canned Goods and Food Drives Tis the season for giving and my favorite type of giving is food, grocery and personal hygiene donations for food banks and homeless shelters. Here's a list of the canned goods and food donations to give this holiday season. Best food pantry donations

Fair Trade Coffee: Higher Grounds

Jesus said, 'pay the worker the wage he is due. Do not cheat him out of his fair wage.' Every time I enjoy a cup of coffee lately, I feel a pricking of conscience. Is the coffee that I am enjoying grown under green conditions? Is it renewing or stripping the land? And most importantly, are the coffee plantation harvesters earning a fair wage? Are workers families thriving? Or as is more common, are the workers putting blood, sweat and tears into a job that does not sustain their families? Higher Grounds Coffee Company is a fair trade, shade-grown organic coffee that I drink and feel good about drinking. Read more...

Fair Trade Shopping Sustainable, Renewable Resources

Green, Sustainable, Fair Trade Clothing, Fabrics, Toys and Accessories Fair Indigo makes hand-knitted garments, accessories and toys from bamboo fabric, a totally sustainable fiber. Fair Indigo is a fair trade employer which pays workers a living wage and reasonable working conditions. best fair trade shopping sites

Lenten Almsgiving Activity

Alms-Giving Activity for Lent
School, family, home-school or CCD activity to raise awareness and sensitivity to world hunger and poverty. Almsgiving and fundraiser to promote social justice and solidarity with the world church. Catholics focus on prayer, fasting and almsgiving during the penitential season of lent. Spiritual preparation for Easter. Corporal Works of Mercy.
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Lenten and Ash Wednesday Almsgiving Activities

Lenten and Easter Activity: Fasting, Almsgiving, Prayer
Use this lenten almsgiving service project to practice spiritual exercises of fasting and alms-giving. Focus on Social Justice, World Church, missions and prayer. Lesson plans include social studies and math extensions; multiplication, division, counting, sorting, grouping and story problems. Great education for all children. Use for CCD, religious education, classroom service project, homeschool, scout troop, 4H group and more!
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Lenten and Ash Wednesday Almsgiving Activities

Lenten and Easter Activity: Fasting, Almsgiving, Prayer
Use this lenten almsgiving service project to practice spiritual exercises of fasting and alms-giving. Focus on Social Justice, World Church, missions and prayer. Lesson plans include social studies and math extensions; multiplication, division, counting, sorting, grouping and story problems. Great education for all children. Use for CCD, religious education, classroom service project, homeschool, scout troop, 4H group and more!
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Grieving and Giving, How to Write a Eulogy

How to Write a Eulogy A eulogy is the speech given in memory a deceased person. A eulogy is a great gift of love. You don't need to be a priest, patriarch, rabbi or minister to write a beautiful eulogy. It is a significant part of the grieving process. Eulogies are not difficult write; if you are asked to write one, here is a guide to gather family memories for the eulogy. View more on how to write a eulogy

How to Choose a Senior Care Facility

Using the LRE Principle to Choose Senior Housing or a Care Facility
Caring for senior citizens is a delicate issue.You want the best care for your loved one. Yet you don't want to put unnecessary restrictions on them. Here's are guide for choosing the best care that gives the most freedom.
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Christmas Holiday Shopping Guide

How to Get What You Want for Everyone on Your Holiday Shopping List and Not Go Broke
Over 20 tips to stay out of financial hot water this holiday season and still get what you want to get for everyone.
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Operation Christmas Child- Samaritan's Purse

Samaritan's Purse - Operation Christmas Child
Samaritan's Purse, a global Christian relief organization hosts an annual Christmas gift collection drive called Operation Christmas OCC delivers gift boxes to children around the world. Want to participate? It's easy! Here's how.
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