“THANKSGIVING FOR ALL” celebrates

 12 years of supporting small food pantries

175,000 servings of Turkey.

We send special thanks to all who have donated over the years. We are excited to announce that THANKSGIVING FOR ALL has expanded to include more members of our community assisting in the example of community service given by Orrin. In our endeavor to help all we can, have a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner we are working as a team. The team wants to  keep the dream alive and we look forward to working together to continue coordinating with small food pantries and organizations that depend on the turkeys provided by you.

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Hi my name is Janelle Goodin, I am seventeen years old. I first met Orrin when he was my Sunday school teacher a couple years ago.  I am grateful to Orrin for all he has done and for being Christ like, and loving for others. He wants to help others. I am impressed how amazing this organization is.

I know his life is very busy right now, because of him and what he has done; I want to take this opportunity to help our community and to help people. I want to help THANKSGIVING FOR ALL.  I want to help people because they help me in many ways. I especially want to help kids and kids with special needs.

l have lived in Murrieta my whole life. I am homeschooled.  I come from a large family. There are five kids in my family including me. My mom and dad adopted me; they have always been there for me throughout my life, and also my sisters and my brother.

I was born very premature.   I weighed one pound eight ounces.  I was very lucky to be born at the Loma Linda children’s hospital.  While I was there the doctors told my parents  that I would never be able to talk, walk , sit up , hold my head up or eat  and that I would also be blind and deaf.  After a lot of prayers and hard work and many months I was able to go home weighing four pounds. Later that year I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, I am so thankful I am able to walk, talk, sit up, hear and see.  And most everything I need to do. But, I just do it in a different way. Because I have cerebral palsy I might not be able to get a job right away. There are a lot of goals I have made for myself. I would like to go to college. I want to be able to help others. I want to help this organization for a very long time, and as Jr. Team Member leader I can.

Thank you for giving me this chance to help, Janelle   

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Macy Reed Jr. Team Member

 Macy and Jillian Reed heard about THANKGSGIVING FOR ALL from their Aunt. When they read about Orrin on the website they asked if they could do some odd jobs and earn some money to donate a turkey.  After cleaning her pool they earned enough money for one turkey.

When asked why she wanted to help Macy replied “Giving is important and I want to help everyone to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday like me and my family. Asking others to help by donating money to get a turkey on everyone’s table is the right thing to do.”

Jillian likes helping people and working with THANKSGIVING FOR ALL is a fun way to help. Jillian thinks Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks. She is thankful for what she has and wants others to be able to be thankful too. Jillian says ” I like people who help others even when they don’t know who they are helping. I think it is good when people give their money to help. Buying turkeys is a great way to help.”

Both Macy and Jillian are helping by working hard to get the word out about THANKSGIVING FOR ALL. They are asking friends, neighbors, relatives and school teachers. They are passing out fliers and encouraging anyone who will listen to join them in the good feeling of giving at Thanksgiving time.

Jillian Reed  Jr. Team Member

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Thank you to Stater Bros. Markets for allowing us to purchase turkeys in large quantities since 2002.

Jack Brown, CEO of Stater Bros. Markets, invited Orrin to visit him in 2002.

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Orrin said “Somewhere a child is hoping to have turkey for Thanksgiving, just like you and your family plan on having. Let’s help that child out together. We need your support. With your donations we can keep this going. We have seen and heard about many unemployed and homeless people with their families, and it is sad to see this. This year with the way the economy is and how everyday people are losing their jobs we are in a major need for help. Food Pantries are being overwhelmed because of the amount of people that are jobless and homeless. We know that if you were to trade places with some of them, they would do whatever possible to assist you and your family. Any amount of donation will do be it large or small. In the past many have been able to assist us and we appreciate that.”

This is our 11th year, can you believe it? What Orrin started at age twelve has grown so much because of people like you.  It is crucial that we help out all that we can.  Join with us in lending a hand to the less fortunate people at Thanksgiving. Please send your check or money order made out to THANKSGIVING FOR ALL  to our address.

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“Turkey Blessings”

PRESS RELEASE

November 2008 & 2009

After sending out a plea for help, Thanksgiving For All received a fantastic last minute donation from the “Morongo Band of Mission Indians.” Not only did we receive the original donation of turkeys the Tribe provided,  but additional turkeys as well! What a wonderful blessing. This donation will help so many who were otherwise not going to receive a turkey this year.

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Just a few days before Thanksgiving, we got a phone call from Central County United Way. They told me to immediately contact Soboba Casino in San Jacinto. The Casino had a bunch of frozen turkeys and wanted to donate them. We rented a huge truck, loaded the turkeys and delivered them to VNW Circle of Care in Temecula. Circle of Care was in great need of turkeys that year. Their operation had no turkeys and was going to cancel their Thanksgiving Basket pass out. It was a miracle - a once in a lifetime thing. A Soboba Casino employee mentioned that this will probably not happen again.

Because of Soboba Casino’s generous donation to Thanksgiving For All, we were part of the miracle. VNW Circle of Care, serving nearly 800 families in the Inland Empire, was able to get everything else together and pass out Thanksgiving food baskets, complete with turkey!

Turkey donations from Soboba Casino

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In 2009, we partnered with www.waze.com. Waze.com offered to donate one turkey for every ten people who signed up to follow Waze.com on Twitter. People who wanted to spread the word, tweeted the following message:

Provide 500 turkeys 4 the hungry + win a Flip videocam! Simply follow @waze & RT this msg. http://bit.ly/M7MLo #wazeSocialGPS

Waze.com donated 79 turkeys for the 2009 Thanksgiving season. Go to www.waze.com to get more info on their great free App, compatible with apple and droid. One of the top free navigational Apps since July 2010.

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