A BOX LAUNCH!
So, what would draw a bunch of
adults and some kids to a church hall
on a Wednesday night nine days before
Christmas? Well, a Box Launch of
course!
Not a lunch. A launch!
Volunteers from the New Life
Community Church in Mountaintop
launched a project to pick out toys,
coloring books, and various trinkets to
fill shoe boxes that will become Christmas
presents for some kids who might
otherwise not receive anything on
Christmas morning.
The church has always supported
Operation Christmas Child which
provides similar boxes to children in
third world nations. But this year
members decided to fill that same
need for kids in a low income area
in Philadelphia. A lot of kids from
that neighborhood have found their
way to northeastern Pennsylvania.
Unfortunately it is as inmates at our
Juvenile Detention Center. The hope
is that this effort will help catch some
youngsters there before they end up
in the legal system.
Two long tables were covered
with the gifts which were hand
packed by the volunteers into shoe
boxes marked for a young boy or
girl.
I lent a hand. But I did find it
difficult to pick out toys without
trying them out just a little bit. Those
Hot Wheels cars are really neat. Don't
worry. I did put them in the shoe box!
In less than two hours some 200
boxes were packed and wrapped and
ready to be delivered on Tuesday
just in time for Christmas.
Santa never had elves work
faster! Of course most of ours were
a bit taller than his!
Hope it makes for a brighter
Christmas for some Pennsylvania
kids so that all their NEWS is good!
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