Manhattan Beach Nonprofits and Charities

Chemocessories is such an inspirational nonprofit. Providing gifts of joy to patients undergoing chemotherapy at a time when they are at a vulnerable part of their journey is truly uplifting. Each set contains inspiration, scarf, headwrap and jewelry all chosen by a volunteer who puts the package together. As a cancer survivor myself, gifts or wishes of inspiration or things to make you feel good can really help lift you up when you are feeling down. The beauty is that you can request to send a set to anyone going through chemothearpy. The community this organization creates for the volunteers is one that brings people back to participate. After one session, I saw volunteers sign up for open shift the next day. Creating something for someone they could enjoy is very fulfilling. It is a joy to be involved with this charity as it is to receive something from it!

I was involved with WWFA very early on and went to Malawi and saw the incredible joy that a well brings to a village. WWFA volunteers train to be culturally correct and the system of developing a water committee for each well gives the village an ongoing role , plus the backup done in following years, ensures that the wells continue to operate. This is a nonprofit that works with little overhead - an enormous amount of work is done by volunteers. Through the blessings of God, they have expanded their services to include enhancing school education and health and hygiene. My donations, with others, have been wonderfully multiplied. I highly commend WWFA for all they do!

I have be proudly volunteering with this program for years and plan to continue because it is dedicated to pursuing providing and researching the healing capabilities of the ocean on our mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical health.

I used to be a JW also, was raised a witness and about 20 years ago quit going because a lot of the stuff they were teaching was not right, especially the 1914 end time prophecy. If I give my Ex husband credit for anything it would be questioning some of the JW's beliefs and it got me thinking, I would've never done it on my own, didn't want to make any waves. He wrote to Freeminds and read the Franz book 'Crisis of Conscience'. <br>Anyway, I didn’t think any one religion was really right so I just decided to occasionally read the Bible and follow the commandments that Jesus told his disciples when they asked what they needed to be saved, (love God with your whole heart and your neighbor as yourself) and I would leave the rest to God. <br> <br>Then, a JW aunt of mine died (all my inlaws and family are JW’s) it suddenly hit me, what did I believe, what happens when we die, my parents will die soon and then me, etc and what’s really going to happen. I guess I somehow held on to the prospect that all my family and myself would live on into a new world type situation. So I was in a heap of confusion and needing to establish again what do I really believe? I wasn’t a witness, but I wasn’t anything else either. I felt like I was having a mini- breakdown. I don’t know if any particular religion is 100% right, but they're closer than the witnesses. The witnesses also said the bible said there was only one true religion, but actually it says there is only one true FAITH (Christian). Even though I distanced myself from the witnesses and told people I was no longer one, I still had some of the ‘old baggage beliefs’ and I needed to root out theirs truth, accept or reject it and move on. I have since found a couple of non denominational churches that I attend and let me tell you it was something the first time I stepped into a ‘wordly’ church. However, I found out that the people there can be loving and not judgmental as the witnesses and they were actually teaching from the Bible. My husband who was raised a catholic (and not really into being a catholic) accompanied me to these churches to help me out and I think in the process he also helped himself out. We do need fellowship, the same like mind and Christian concern fellowship. I have even gone to bible studies at these churches which were very nice. They have a lot more activities then the witnesses and my big observation was I found other churches do a lot more for people, not just for the ones going to their church but for others outside the church, the witnesses don't really help others, they have to judge them first to see if they're worthy of their help. They are too quick to determine if they are ‘weak’ or ‘strong’ in the organization before they help them. Anyway, the first step to all this was research and Freeminds helped tremendously! <br> <br>