Those were the days, my friend

by Eric Richardson  Remembering a Christmas Eve, around 10 degrees in Dallas! We’d been selling frozen carnations and on the way home the MFT van broke down. So there’s our team hunkered down in the back of a pickup being driven back to our center by some...

50 monchichis decorate Christmas tree

by Diana Berreman Davies My first 2 Christmases nobody went home, but we didn’t fundraise either. I was very close to my home both years, but there had been a lot of kidnappings recently Also Father asked us to stay together and offer it up, as it was a...

Mr Kamiyama gave MFTers $100

by Robert Gauper A few times, Mr. Kamiyama gave us MFTers $100.00 to buy Christmas presents to send to our families. I would send $50.00 to my wife in New Zealand, which was a lot of money because of the weak NZ dollar at that time. My wife would then buy presents...

Ping pong on Christmas

by Priscilla Joy Agari I remember one Christmas when I was selling flowers on Long Island and after we finished, I was allowed to go to my family’s Christmas gathering in Amityville. My face was so red from being out in the cold wind. My dad was so happy,...