Operation Ward 57 Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for the Holidays 2019 (Financial Debrief)

[John Morris]

 

Final Debrief

Once again I'd like to thank all those who participated and all those who sent positive thoughts and prayers to this wonderful project we held, and we will hold once again this year in 10 short months.

 

Many of you did not win any prizes, but please keep in mind, the grand prize was helping the Family to have a wonderful memorable Christmas. So we all won in that regard! Thank you to all who participated!

To view our project please visit this link Operation Ward 57 Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for the Holidays Project - 2019

You can see the total contributions by you, our supporters at Christmas Project Donation Page

 

Total Proceeds and Expenditures

Gross w/cash donations	$2395.00
PayPal fees	$110.62
Gifts	$2221.16
Check to Family	$63.22
Balance	$0000.00

Fees Definitions

• Gross - Total contributions by you, our generous contributors including cash donations mailed directly to our home.
• PayPal fees - These fees are a percentage of what PayPal takes from each transaction.
• Gifts - The amount that was spent for the family.
• Check to family - The remainder of the funds in the coffers sent to the Family.
• Balance - Funds Remaining.

 

Questions?

If anyone has any questions at all regarding this project, and how your proceeds were used, please do not hesitate to PM me or one of our admins, or you can email me at administrator@thepatriotwoodworker.com.

To the best of my ability I have shown a full disclosure in this topic, if you see any errors or accidental omissions please feel free to call us out here by replying to this topic. I am not perfect, so I may have missed something.

 

Screen shots of the family gifts that you, our generous donors purchased the children.

 

 

 

Each child received a gift card for $200.00

 

Mom and Dad each received a gift card for $200.00, mom is going to use hers for a day at the spa, and dad is an avid movie watcher, he is going to use it to go to the local theater with family a few times.

The $100.00 gift card was for their family Christmas dinner.

 

 

Our initial response to our family after being selected to sponsor

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Good day anonymous family!
My name is John Morris, and we have been chosen to be your family for Christmas! I am very excited and honored to be chosen to help bring some Christmas into the life of an awesome family.

I am the founder of The Patriot Woodworker. I run an online woodworking community that is full of woodworkers and veterans alike, our main mission is to support our American Veterans any way we can, and each year we apply to Operation Ward 57 to have a family all our own for the Holidays, that we can share the joy with.
This year, you guys are paired up with us!

Just to see who we are so you can gain a level of comfort with us, here are a few links.

This is our community home page.
https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/

This is our Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/thepatriotwoodworker/

This is my own personal family Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/john.morris.1466

So there you have it guys, my preliminary introduction from us, to you. And thank you in advance for letting us in a very small way, try to payback to those who have served.
Cheers!
John Morris

PS, please contact us back so we can go over the details and make an awesome Christmas for anonymous son, anonymous son, anonymous son, and anonymous daughter

 

Some Quotes from Mom of the family

The below quotes are from emails we had with our adopted Family mom, we had many emails together, I could not share more than what I have as in doing so, could exposed the identity of our family.

 

Above all during our communications, I made sure that she understood, no thanks was or is ever necessary, we are simply paying back what we owe to her family. Us Americans and much of the world, we owe our freedoms because of the man of this family who served, who answered the call, and paid the price. For those of us sitting at home and enjoying our lifestyle and freedoms to move about and perform our daily routines and rituals, make no mistake, if it wasn't for the men and women of our United States Military, our lives would change in a heartbeat, without our military, we have no protection, without protection, our shores would be over-run by those who would exploit our weakness if we did not have those who serve our nation, standing post with rifle in hand, and willing to do the un-heard of.

Thank you to our adopted family. This family is still paying the price.

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Good Morning John

This is anonymous mom. First I would like to thank you and your Patriots for selecting our family and blessing us this Christmas. The kids are excited the holidays are coming and we are thankful for people like you that will help us make our kid's Christmas a little more cheerful.

Thank you

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Hi John

We feel so blessed and thankful for everything you and the Patriots are doing for my family. You all have done above and beyond and we appreciate it.

 

In closing

We want to thank everyone again for their participation in the 2019 Christmas project, we are very proud of how our Patriot Woodworkers, guests, and our wonderful  sponsors, Easy Wood Tools, Laguna Tools, and Woodcraft Supply came to the table, and made this all happen.

 

More surprises

We had some members of The Patriot Woodworkers ship some physical items to us, to be transferred to our adopted family, I took pictures of those items, and I will post a separate topic relating to those handmade crafts, they are very special, and you'll all love them!

[p_toad]

Thank you and well done. 

[FlGatorwood]

Wow.  This will warm your innards on a cold night.  Thank you, John and family, for making all this possible and thanks to all you contributed so this family could enjoy the holiday.  Looking forward to doing this again next year.  In the meantime, John, I am going go make my monthly contribution to this sight to keep it going.  

[Cal]

Kudos to you John for doing this, and a big thank you to everyone that participated - especially the sponsors.

[honesttjohn]

Yay John!!