MFT (Mobile Fundraising Teams) and Fundraising

by Sam Harley Sometimes you pay indemnity before blessing, and sometimes you pay later. Tennessee wasn’t a big cash flashing place to fundraise in 1980. Doing a four way stop light outside of Nashville, a guy in a custom van (remember those?) waved me over just as the...

by Sam Harley June 1, 2018 Just for fun I want to compare my life now with my fundraising days. I have several pairs of sneakers that are at least a year old. Most are still wearable. On MFT, the life expectancy of sneakers was three months. After that, holes in the...

by Stephen Goldstein and Robert Brown September 3, 2017 Stephen and Robert discuss how a spiritual breakthrough helped all on MFT.

by Priscilla Joy Agari August 12, 2017 I remember one Thanksgiving I was fundraising in Mystic Connecticut with Daisy Joy Elizabeth and we wrapped up our flower stands and were instructed to go to a Diner for dinner. At a gas station, while in line to pay, I asked the...

by Maria Piperis August 12, 2017 Often people offered me food and drinks while I was fundraising. Some in Spanish speaking areas where I was invited to come in sit down and eat. Maybe the one Chinese woman who not only fed our whole Team of 4 but also opened her house...

by Jeri Tamayo  Okay I was in Michigan and I was struggling cuz I wasn't making money I'm a very simple person. My team captain picks me up I pray I report and have almost nothing to count I'm crying cuz I feel bad that I didn't make any money. My Captain allows...

by Jeri Tamayo  I honestly never struggled on Christmas in my fund raising years. My team captains never had us fund raise on Christmas, we got to sleep in, at a nice hotel, and we would go out to an extra nice restaurant or we would be at the main center and then...

by Robert Gauper  The quote, “It’s sometimes easier to ask forgiveness than permission.” comes to mind. I led a two-man team that fundraised small towns throughout the Midwest and made a serious attempt to follow their fundraising rules. While trying to play by the...

by Gregory Davis Well, if you want to start with "shoulda, coulda, woulda, we might begin with "actual permits" with adherence to "actual legal guidelines" of same. As a one time "PR person" with the job of attending town council meetings and securing "permits"...

by Priscilla Joy Agari I remember one frigid Christmas on Frank Harris's challenge team when the commander commanded him to have us sell roses instead of the clip-ons that we made high result with daily. We tried to unite. I don't know where we were. Everything around...

by Muracle De Goeij Samtjoe I don't have a Christmas fundraising story, but I remember doing a traffic stop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the 1980s with another sister, who was on the other side of the road. It was Valentine's Day and it wasn't a good day, so I went...

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 kind sole....

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 providentially...

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...