I can tell you about 10 years ago I was needing help for Christmas.
WBOC told me the name of a church they gave funds to. So I made an appointment on Christmas eve to go there. The church told me they didn't get any donations from WBOC. I said well that's funny because they gave me your cell number and said you were one of the last to get $$ from them. They hesitantly made an appointment with me. I waited in their cold church, no lights on, no one talked to us for hours with my sister.
After about 9pm on CHRISTMAS Eve the pastor arrived. He spent about 20 minutes bragging about how he has been able to buy homes for his whole family through donations, walked us out back and shown us building supplies, new bathtubs to be exact on that day and said he's got huge storage units full. All donated to them. He then handed me a football and coloring book for my children. After bragging about getting donations to help families for Christmas. I'm not being selfish when I say this... it gave me a scam vibe.
I was the only family there to get gifts that year. It was like they didn't tell people they got the funds to help. This was my first and only time needing help and since then I've never donated to Bless our Children. Only through churches I trust.
All I'm saying is that they don't do much checking up on who gets these funds. These people were resentful of me being there in the first place. I was the only person who came to get toys and that was all they handed me.
I wanted you to know this happened and could use some digging to see if it's normal or one that slipped through the cracks.
WBOC told me the name of a church they gave funds to. So I made an appointment on Christmas eve to go there. The church told me they didn't get any donations from WBOC. I said well that's funny because they gave me your cell number and said you were one of the last to get $$ from them. They hesitantly made an appointment with me. I waited in their cold church, no lights on, no one talked to us for hours with my sister.
After about 9pm on CHRISTMAS Eve the pastor arrived. He spent about 20 minutes bragging about how he has been able to buy homes for his whole family through donations, walked us out back and shown us building supplies, new bathtubs to be exact on that day and said he's got huge storage units full. All donated to them. He then handed me a football and coloring book for my children. After bragging about getting donations to help families for Christmas. I'm not being selfish when I say this... it gave me a scam vibe.
I was the only family there to get gifts that year. It was like they didn't tell people they got the funds to help. This was my first and only time needing help and since then I've never donated to Bless our Children. Only through churches I trust.
All I'm saying is that they don't do much checking up on who gets these funds. These people were resentful of me being there in the first place. I was the only person who came to get toys and that was all they handed me.
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