מאיר אפרים טורנר בעט: העלפטס מיך באקומען א הענדיקעפ ווען!

Please forward the wonderful news--Meir Efraim is a semi-finalist!

Thanks to all of you who were so supportive and caring, Meir Efraim Turner has made it into the semi-finals of the NMEDA contest to win a wheelchair accessible van. The judges will now decide between the semi finalists and award the 3 custom adapted wheelchair accessible vans to three of them.

The three winners will be announced on May 30. We will keep you updated.

Now is the time to use the power of the tzibur to daven for Meir Efraim ben Golda Pessa to have hatzlocha in everything that he does! Your teffillos can make the difference!

May the True Judge up in Heaven grant all of us here on Earth everything that we need as a generous gift.

Even better—Let us use this auspicious moment to pray together for all of our thousands of brethren who are sick or disabled to have a complete and absolute Refuah Sheleima and long and productive years with much hatzlocha!

Please forward to all of your contacts who are waiting to hear the news.

Golda Turner
Beineinu


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Meir Efraim Turner
Monsey, NY

CONGRATULATIONS!
It’s our pleasure to announce you have advanced to the semi-finalist stage of the Local Heroes program. Your submission received enough votes to make the top 10 percent of your category, so your story is now under review by an independent selection committee.

Once the four finalists are identified, they will be contacted by a National Mobility Equipment Dealer Association (NMEDA) representative to review the next steps for assuming ownership of a new wheelchair-accessible vehicle. These four Local Heroes will be announced publicly in early June.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
Chrysler, Toyota and Mobility Ventures LLC are providing the vehicles for the 2014 contest that will be customized by NMEDA members BraunAbility and Vantage Mobility International (VMI). Without their donations of vehicles and conversion this contest would not be possible.

Again, thank you for joining us in the celebration of National Mobility Awareness Month.

Dear Friends,
 
Did you ever see the joy on someone’s face when you gave them a gift that they really wanted and looked forward to getting? There are no words to describe the pleasure that the receiver of such a gift feels when he unwraps the long awaited gift and finally holds it in his hands.
 
Well, we had the honor and pleasure of giving our Father In Heaven a tremendous gift that he has been longing to receive for so many years.
 
We, his children, joined together for a few weeks to do an act of Chesed for one of the special souls that He placed here on Earth. By voting daily for Meir Efraim Turner and encouraging others to vote, too, we created a huge circle of international Ba’alei Chesed from across the entire spectrum of humanity whose sole desire was to make this special boy happy. For those few weeks, there was no difference in how we dress, what language we talk, where we pray, or what we do. It was an unprecedented act of Brotherhood that had the Angels in Heaven singing in praise.
 
With all of the fighting, pettiness, and arguing between brothers in the world today, is there any greater gift that we could have given to Our Father In Heaven? Can any gift make Him happier than seeing His children join together as one—for weeks on end--to help someone that most of them do not even know?
 
And here on Earth, every vote, every email, every call, and every ‘hi’ in the street was a tremendous Mitzvah that made Meir Efraim feel like a millionaire! There is no way to describe the excitement that he felt knowing that so many people care about him. May all of you be blessed for bringing Meir Efraim such joy.
 
As for the wheelchair accessible vans, we truly hope that whoever of the 1400 disabled contestants won them will be able to use it in good health and happiness. They certainly need it as much as we do.
 
And we believe that even though our Father In Heaven did not grant it to us through this contest, He will certainly find another way to give us whatever we need, including an accessible vehicle.  For He certainly remembers how many disabled people benefited for years from our old wheelchair van.
 
Together, we gave Him a great gift. May He grant each and every one of us the gift of Life, Health, and Happiness.
 
 
Golda Turner
Beineinu