In August, the Baton Rouge area of Louisiana suffered the worst flooding to occur since Hurricane Katrina. According to the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, 110,000 households were significantly affected by the flooding. While the Disaster Care Ministry was working in the Baton Rouge area it became apparent that a large number of children were impacted. The prospect these children having a good Christmas is low.
The Disaster Care Ministry at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church would like to ask you to join us in Operation Christmas Hope. Through Operation Christmas Hope our goals is to bring the hope we have in Christ to 1000 children in the Baton Rouge area.
Our plan is to provide each child with a hardback copy of Paul L. Maier’s “The Very First Christmas” and a shoe box gift. We are asking your church or organization to consider assisting us by providing some shoe box gifts. Each shoe box should contain a gift or gifts valued at between $10 and $15. The gift should be wrapped and a tag with gender (Boy or Girl) and age group (preschool –Kindergarten, 1st – 3rd, and 4th - 6th) should be placed on the top of the box. Gifts need to be delivered to Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, 5851 New York Ave., Arlington, TX 76018 by December 4th.You can e-mail David Ricks. (e-mail disastercare@bslc.net )
Gift Suggestions
Toys: Include items that children will immediately embrace such as toy cars, yo-yos, jump ropes, balls, Toys that light up and make noise (with extra batteries), etc.
School Supplies: pens, pencils and sharpeners, markers, notebooks, paper, solar calculators, coloring and picture books, etc.
Accessories: T-shirts, socks, hats, sunglasses, hair clips, jewelry, watches, flashlights (with extra batteries), etc.
Do not include food, breakable items, or items that might melt.
Sincerely,
David Ricks
Disaster Care Ministry/BSLC
Disastercare@bslc.net
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