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70 Ways to Join in the Celebration!

Celebrate Jan by Celebrating Yourself and/or Your Connections with Others:

  1. Live in gratitude. List five things you feel grateful for today.
  2. Wake up each morning with the affirmation I have no complaints whatsoever! This is one of Jan's affirmations that she wrote about here.
  3. Put on a CD that "moves" you and dance in your living room.
  4. Read one of the books that has been reviewed in the eNewsletter Turning Points, for instance, A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough by Wayne Muller.
  5. Cut flowers or flowering branches and give someone a gift.
  6. Be the first to smile at a stranger.
  7. Offer to do someone's hair.
  8. Offer to cook dinner for someone who is sick or tired.
  9. Offer to walk someone's dog.
  10. Make contact with an old friend, neighbor, college roommate with whom you have lost touch.
  11. Write that letter you have been meaning to write.
  12. Take 7 minutes and reflect in prayer on the grace and gratitude in your life.
  13. Spend 70 minutes in nature feeling joy and fulfillment in your heart.
  14. Turn off your cell phone for 70 minutes a day and listen to your own heartbeat.
    15.  Celebrate with a House Party (Show the promotional DVD at any of these events; we will send you a free copy - click here to learn how to get it, and for tips on hosting some of these events.

  15. Have a clothes swap and donate the entrance fee of $30 (or more) to Healing Journeys. Click here for instructions.
  16. Have a bowling party with an entry fee or have each strike be a specific dollar amount donated to Healing Journeys.
  17. Have a sand castle contest and the entrance fee be a donation to Healing Journeys.
  18. Have a dinner party and select things to make from Rebecca Katz's cookbook, The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen.
  19. Invite Jan to your house for a friend or community gathering. She will inspire everyone with her story and those in attendance can band together and contribute to the birthday celebration.
  20. Have a spaghetti and brown bag wine-tasting party. Click here for instructions.
  21. Have a garage sale or, even better, coordinate a block garage sale and ask everyone to donate a portion or all of their profit to Healing Journeys.
  22. Have a fun movie night with friends, include the Healing Journeys DVD, pass the basket. Click here to get the DVD.
  23. Ask a book club to read a book related to Healing Journeys and donate; for instance, read Cancer As A Turning Point by Lawrence LeShan and make a donation to Healing Journeys.
  24. Have a plant clippings party. Have everyone bring a plant they can give clippings from and charge $20 for each person to get their new plants.
  25. Invite your friends to your kitchen. Teach them your favorite recipe(s) and ask for a donation to Healing Journeys in honor of Jan's birthday celebration.
  26. Have a home concert – suggested donation of $20. Click here for instructions.
  27. Make one of Rebecca Katz's desserts from The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen and have a birthday party – ask for donations.
  28. Have a Stone Soup party. Each guest pays $10 for Healing Journeys and brings a vegetable. All the vegetables go into a big pot for a wonderful soup. You provide bread and dessert.
  29. Invite 7 friends over, serve them ice cream and cake and ask them to contribute $10 each to Healing Journeys.
  30. Have an old-fashioned group "box lunch" picnic. Have your group of 7 (or whatever number you want) create special "box lunches" to be auctioned off to the group with proceeds going to Healing Journeys.
    31.  Celebrate Jan with a donation to Healing Journeys:

  31. Honor Jan by donating in honor of a caregiver who companioned you on your journey.
  32. Honor Jan by donating in honor of a medical person who saw you through your treatment.
  33. If you're a committed coffee drinker, you don't have to give it up. If you go from a "Venti" to a "Grande" you save about $150 a year. "Pay it forward" to Healing Journeys.
  34. Receive the John Denver CD with 10 favorite songs, including All This Joy (the song that plays with the "Celebration of Heroes" slideshow at the Cancer as a Turning Point™ conference) for making a $70 donation.
  35. Send Jan a virtual balloon by making a $50 donation.
  36. Receive a John Denver CD and a Sista Monica CD for a $100 donation.
  37. Post on your Facebook Wall what Jan and Healing Journeys means to you and share it with all of your friends.
  38. Order the Cancer Fighting Kitchen DVDs for yourself.
  39. Order the Cancer Fighting Kitchen DVDs and have them sent to a friend or a doctor.
  40. Give yourself the gift of a Healing Journeys workshop. Call the office at (800) 423-9882 to arrange.
  41. Pay for someone who can't pay to attend a Cancer Fighting Kitchen workshop or Telling Your Healing Story workshop. Call the office at (800) 423-9882 to arrange.
  42. Offer your services, or those of others, to the highest bidder - Services you offer to be determined, as appropriate. Donate your proceeds.
  43. Make a monthly pledge to Healing Journeys.
  44. Sell a ticket or a pair of your tickets to something you can't attend. Have check made out to Healing Journeys.
  45. Sell tickets for one event of your season tickets to baseball game, sports event, symphony, opera, concert or theater series. Have check made out to Healing Journeys.
  46. Look around your house. Are there valuable things you no longer need? Sell them, but have the check made out to Healing Journeys.
  47. Donate a valuable prize to Healing Journeys for our next raffle. Call Jan or Beth at (800) 423-9882 or email beth@healingjourneys.org.
  48. Donate airline miles to Healing Journeys for our next raffle.
  49. With $1 a day set aside you can save $70 to send to Healing Journeys in honor of Jan's birthday.
    50.  Ask Others to Join the Celebration:

  50. Write to 10 friends and ask them to help you raise $700 for Jan's Birthday.
  51. If you have a good friend who is a business owner, ask them if they would be a supporter for a Healing Journeys event.
  52. Offer to paint someone's nails or do their makeup for a donation to Healing Journeys.
  53. Ask your company if they have matching donations.
  54. Ask your own oncologists to learn more about Healing Journeys and the free Cancer as a Turning Point™ conference, and become a sponsor.
  55. Get money, support, or sponsors for any marathon, runs, etc. that you participate in. Make it a fundraiser for Healing Journeys, in honor of Jan's birthday.
  56. Call 7 friends and share your Healing Journeys story with them.
  57. Call 7 people you miss that you haven't spoken to for at least 70 days and invite them to join the fun.
    58.  Honor Jan and Healing Journeys:

  58. Send a written birthday message to Jan.
  59. Send an audio message. Click here for instructions.
  60. Make a video for the Party page. Click here for instructions.
  61. Post the Facebook Page for Jan's Celebration on your FB page for 7 days in a row.
  62. Write an article for your local paper or on-line magazine about what Healing Journeys and Jan Adrian has meant to you.
  63. Write or identify a poem you want to honor Jan.
  64. Write a Healing Journeys Haiku (5+7+5 = 17 syllables) and send it to 17 friends directing them to the Facebook page for Jan's Party. Example:
    Time to Celebrate
    Jan and her Healing Journey
    I'll tell Everyone!
  65. Send your Haiku to Healing Journeys: board@healingjourneys.org.
  66. Tell 3 people your Healing Journeys story and about Jan and her 70th Birthday Party Celebration.
  67. Invite all your Facebook friends 3 times (every three weeks!).
  68. Draw or paint a birthday picture for Jan. Send it to Healing Journeys: board@healingjourneys.org.
  69. Plant a tree in honor of Jan's birthday.
  70. Be creative and do whatever you want to celebrate Jan's birthday!
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With your help, we are raising $70,000 in 70 days!

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What you've contributed so far to the dream and reality of
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If 1000 people send in $70 = $70,000
If 200 people send in $350 = $70,000
If 100 people send in $700 = $70,000
If 70 people send in $1000 = $70,000

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Listen to All This Joy
by John Denver

This song plays with the "Celebration of Heroes" slideshow at the Cancer as a Turning Point conference.

Make a donation of $70 and receive John Denver's CD with 10 songs, including All This Joy as a
Thank You gift.



A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough
by Wayne Muller




The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen
by Rebecca Katz


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