by Robert Brown | Aug 3, 2017 | MFT and Fundraising
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...
by Robert Brown | Aug 3, 2017 | MFT and Fundraising
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...
by Robert Brown | Aug 3, 2017 | MFT and Fundraising
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...
by Robert Brown | Aug 3, 2017 | MFT and Fundraising
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...
by Robert Brown | Aug 3, 2017 | Challenging Times, MFT and Fundraising
by Paul Carlson I did 7 years on national MFT, the last two with OWP. We always went out on Christmas, not door to door though, and for a short day. I did not have any particular trouble making a goal. My memory is a bit fuzzy, I’d think we did celebrate one...
by Robert Brown | Aug 2, 2017 | MFT and Fundraising, Spiritual Experiences
by Joy Irvine Garrat My first Christmas on MFT was shocking when I found out I was not going home. Then I was dropped off door to door with tons of flower bouquets in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. 9 am. OMG! 9 am on Christmas morning! I was on a mostly Japanese team who...
