Meals On Wheels Ministry, Inc.

****BAD NEWS and GOOD NEWS****

We are about 500 gifts short of being able to fulfill our Santas for Seniors mission this year.

Even though our collection boxes were already picked up…
True Vine Brewing Company has graciously offered to be a weekend drop off spot for shoppers who’d like to donate items.

We need:
- blankets
- nonslip socks
- activity books
- toiletries or hygiene items
- snack packs
**please avoid gender or size specific items

True Vine is located at 2453 Earl Campbell Parkway in Tyler’s Mosaic District and are open 11-11 today and tomorrow. We have collection boxes inside and out under the pavilion.

You can also bring items to our Tyler Meals on Wheels office all next week.
3001 Robertson Rd.

We are determined to gift all of our clients with a goodie bag for Christmas to remind them they are loved and not at all forgotten. You can help us send that message by donating items!!

We are also accepting monetary donations so we can shop to fill the gap. You can do so online or come by our office next week.

Www.mealsonwheelsetx.org/santas-for-seniors-info/

Thank you, True Vine, and thank you, East Texas, for helping us be more than a meal to those we serve. ❤️❤️

Thank you to Novo Nordisk Team Tyler for helping us pack gifts for Santas for Seniors today!

We appreciate you, Karen Bl**er, Meri-Margaret Messer, Brandy Spann, and Matt Tucker!

It’s not too late to help support Santas for Seniors this year!

Our needs are:
- gift bags in standard to large sizes
- toiletries
- socks
- individually packaged snacks
- activity books
- monetary donations so we can fill in the gaps

Www.mealsonwheelsetx.org/santas-for-seniors-info/

Thank you to the Southside Bank branch on South Broadway for being a new Santas for Seniors drop-off site this year!

Their box is almost full!

Can you bring goodies by their location today or tomorrow and help them fill it? Blankets and activity books make great gifts!

🎁 Time is limited to help fill our Santas for Seniors boxes across East Texas!

🎁 Help us fill these boxes with blankets, activity books, warm socks, snacks, or hygiene items OR bring your donations to our Tyler office.

🎁 We are also in need of gift packers tomorrow and Thursday in Tyler from 9-3 AND gift bags. We cannot succeed in gifting all 2700+ clients with a Christmas present without your help. ❤️

More info is available on our website:
Www.mealsonwheelsetx.org/santas-for-seniors-info/

We are in need of more blankets for Santas for Seniors
*this week* as well as gift bags and tissue paper! ❤

Thank you for Brenda Herron of Tyler for donating blankets in honor of her mother this morning. ❤️

Our Santas for Seniors gift drive is coming to an end! Be sure to donate blankets, warm socks, or other goodies from our shopping list no later than 3pm on Tuesday.

You can also simply make a donation and we will handle the shopping.

Check our website for more information or give us a call. 903-593-7385

Www.mealsonwheelsetx.org/santas-for-seniors-info/

East Texas friends!
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We need some Christmas gift bags and tissue paper for our Santas for Seniors Christmas gift program. We are packing gifts next week and are low on supplies. We can accept new and gently used gift bags in medium and large sizes.

We also need more blankets this year to ensure every client receives one. There are drop-off locations all over East Texas.

Merry meals for December are here!

Beef tips for Christmas and Glazed Ham for New Years?! Yes, please!

Chef Danny and the kitchen crew work so diligently to combine healthy ingredients that don't skimp on flavor. We are grateful to them!

Thank you, Jackie with Brexan Line Services, for bringing by the cutest, softest blankets in support of Santas for Seniors!

Friends, there’s still time to donate new items and bring them to a drop-off box near YOU. 🎅🎅

Check our website for locations or order from our Amazon Wish List from wherever you are. You can even sign up to help us package gifts on December 6 and 7.

Tyler Gives begins in 10 minutes!
Thank you for giving!

Tyler Gives | Give Local. Help Local. 100% of proceeds support Tyler TX Nonprofits this Giving Tuesday. Join thousands of your local neighbors for Tyler Gives this Giving Tuesday. 100% will stay local and will benefit dozens of local nonprofits.

Feed the Need in East Texas TOMORROW!

You can make a difference in the lives of TEN of your neighbors by giving $100 tomorrow morning during Tyler Gives!

HINT - If you make your donation right at 8am, it could be doubled to $200 and (20 people fed) as Tyler Gives is offering dollar for dollar matching up to $75,000.

www.TylerGives.org

Thank you to Tyler volunteers Suzanne Hutson and Stephanie Rountree for decorating our float for the Tyler Christmas parade!

We are so grateful for their help making our float amazing for this year’s Rotary Christmas parade and tree lighting.

We can’t wait for Thursday night! 🎄🎄🎄

During Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday Christmas shopping...

Be sure to set something back for Tyler Gives this coming Tuesday!

Help us Feed the Need in East Texas and keep clients like Dawn receiving meals, friendly visits, safety checks, and referrals to other support services that keep her living independently in her own home.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We are thankful, grateful, and blessed to serve you, partner with you, have you as a volunteer, and work alongside you in East Texas.

Thank you Greenbrier Nursing & Rehab Center of Tyler Texas for stopping by with treats! 😋

Tyler Gives is ONE week away.

Help Feed the Need by giving to Meals on Wheels East Texas.

Increased Demand for Meals + Inflation = Need for More Donors

Come on out to the Bake Sale today until noon! Proceeds benefit many nonprofits in the area!! Thank you Upshur County Community Fund!! We know you need some yummy treats for your family get together!! 🍪 🥧 🍂

Tool Site Manager Michelle King wants to offer a BIG shout out and thank you to Stephen Brown.

He made enough Thanksgiving cards to send out to all Tool Meals on Wheels clients this week. They are all homemade!

Loving our neighbors can look like a lot of different things. If you have a creative way you’d like to bless our clients in a certain community we serve, please reach out!

903-593-7385 ext 015
[email protected]

As a reminder, we serve the following counties:
Gregg
Harrison (Marshall area only)
Henderson
Smith
Upshur
Van Zandt
Wood

It's Thanksgiving Week!

Here is our meal delivery schedule for clients and volunteers.

Keeping Charlene in her home where she most wants to be for as long as possible...
THIS is Meals on Wheels East Texas.

Join us for Tyler Gives 11/28 to Feed the Need in East Texas.
-----> TylerGives.org

Mark your calendar, set an alarm on your phone, or come to our office at 8am and we will help you make your donation online.

The research is clear...

Our 60+ population is the largest it's ever been in our country and a staggering percentage - 1 in 6 - of older adults face hunger each year.

For the same price as **ONE DAY** in a hospital or **ONE WEEK** in a nursing home, we can feed an older adult for ONE YEAR!

Tyler Gives is November 28, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and we would be grateful to have your support.

Each meal costs around $10 to provide to an East Texas neighbor in need. See how many meals you can cover with your gift!

www.TylerGives.com
*Donations will be matched up $75,000 so give right at 8am to double your gift!
**Donating enters you into a drawing to win a $750 Marriott gift card!

When a Santas for Seniors donor brings so many bags of blankets and socks, you need a cart!

Thank you to first-time Santas for Seniors gift donor Susan Dzuras for such loving generosity. ❤️

Find a list of our gift donation boxes across East Texas here-

Www.MealsonWheelsETX.org/santas-for-seniors-info/

It's National Philanthropy Day!

No one described (or lived) philanthropy better than Mother Teresa...

"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving."

On this day, we salute our fellow nonprofits in East Texas doing great work, and, equally so, the people who support us and them. ❤

Exciting morning here!

Thank you to Board Member Chris Stewart of Stewart Family Funeral Home for recording a commercial with Promomedia Agency about our ministry.

We enjoyed having your crew with us today and look forward to seeing the finished product!

We are so humbled to be one of three East Texas nonprofits to receive this extremely generous gift from Etex Telephone Cooperative!

It was an honor to have Charlie Cano, Executive Director, and Dacy Tillery, Executive Assistant, visit us for a tour and check presentation.

Thank you for helping to keep our mission in motion in East Texas! ❤️

Santas for Seniors UPDATE...

We now have gift donation collection boxes in **47** places across East Texas! That number is growing daily!

Check out the location list on our website and learn more about this annual program to bless older and disabled East Texans at Christmas with a bag of goodies. You can even utilize our Amazon Wish List to shop and ship conveniently or simply make a donation and we will do the shopping.

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Sue Kennedy Albritton of Lindale, TX.

Sue supported our Meals on Wheels Lindale site for 45 years as a volunteer for meal delivery and many other tasks. We just celebrated our 50th anniversary so Sue was there from the very beginning.

Director of Operations Myka Scott said, “I have known Sue all my life. She helped me so much at the Lindale Site before she became ill. She was such a sweet lady.”

We send our sincere condolences to the Kennedy and Albritton families upon Sue’s passing and honor her heart for service and loving her neighbors well.

Sue Kennedy Albritton - View Obituary & Service Information Share Memories and Support the Family.

We salute US Navy veteran Ferdinand Dix, father of Longview Site Manager Luann Dix.

"It is special to me that he served our county and is my dad."
- Luann Dix

Thank you for your service, Mr. Dix!

We salute Bill McPherson, US Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam and father of Executive Director Tiffany McPherson Damskov.

"My dad served in Vietnam as a Marine. Although he doesn't talk about it a lot, I know he is a proud veteran and I am honored to be his daughter. My family has many veterans. Both my grandfathers served, three of my uncles served, and several cousins have or are serving our county in the military."

Thank you for your service!

Dear Veterans,

We remember you. We honor you. We salute you. We are grateful for you.

With Deep Respect,
Meals on Wheels East Texas

Come see us and MANY wonderful vendors today!

What a delivery!

Jan and Karl Branam delivered eight giant shopping bags and four boxes full of cozy blankets and soft towels for our Santas for Seniors gift drive. Wow!

Jan’s tip: Use your Kohl’s Cash all year to purchase blankets and towels for pennies on the dollar and donate them to Santas for Seniors!

We think her idea is worth sharing. ❤️❤️

Thank you Branam’s!

Www.mealsonwheelsetx.org/santas-for-seniors-info/

Thank you Henry & Peters, PC in Tyler!

Be sure and help them fill their Santas for Seniors box this month! Their location in central Tyler right off Broadway just north of the loop is a convenient spot to drop off items when you're out and about.

We are GRATEFUL for so much community support in East Texas for this special program we offer every Christmas.

If you'd like more information, please visit our website:
www.MealsonWheelsETX.org/santas-for-seniors-info/

Our 1st donation thanks to La Sandra!

Our Tyler office is a Gift Collection Site for for Santas for Seniors 2023! Please help us fill the box with some of the following items:
-Blankets
-Towels
-Non-slip Socks
-Hygiene Items
-Chapstick
-Bags of snacks (nuts, crackers, cookies…)
-Large Print Activity Books
-Adult Coloring Books
-Marker, Colored Pencils
-Large Print Bibles
-Homemade items such as Bookmarks, Cloth Napkins, Placemats, Prayer Shawls, Ornaments…

Happy Wednesday from our Mineola crew! Just look at those smiles as they serve with joy!

L-R we have:
Kevin - Tyler driver who brings the meals
Mr. Carter - 93 year old veteran who helps pack milks every day
Carol - meal delivery volunteer
Angie Malone - Mineola Site Manager
Terry - meal delivery volunteer
Tim - meal delivery volunteer