Christmas Toy Give Away!

On Christmas Day each year, the Rescue Mission gives gifts to children who are in need. Some of these children belong to families who are guests at the mission. By word of mouth, family's have come each year. We usually give gifts to 200-300 children. Last year, we moved the Toy Give Away to the Church on the Rock just because we would have more room and people who needed gifts would not have to wait outside. We also contacted the social workers in the schools so that the neediest families would know about the Toy Give Away. Linda Morgan has spearheaded the effort to help these families. She has done an incredible work of organizing the toy give away. Each child is able to pick out gifts that are age appropriate and gifts have a monetary value of $15. This has meant so much to families who otherwise would not have Christmas presents. If you would like to donate money towards purchasing a gift or purchase a gift for a child, please contact Linda Morgan. She will be able to give you some suggestions of what is needed. Also, if you would like to help with the Toy Give Away, contact Linda as well. Please call her at 522-0203.

Update

First of all, I would like to apologize for the website not working. I had some problems with it the week before Thanksgiving and haven't been able to get it right yet. Thankfully, we have someone who is working on making a better website that will be professional. Hopefully, it will be working in the near future.

I hope that everyone had a very wonderful Thanksgiving. There is so much to be thankful for. I am amazed at how God has blessed us and given us the ability to provide hot delicious meals and serve others. Thank you for making it possible. The Thanksgiving meal was absolutly delcious...or "irrestistably delcious", as one woman stated who was delivered a meal by two volunteers. Especially good as every year was the turkey and the mash potatoes made from scratch. Thank you to everyone who volunteered and gave of their time or provisions to make Thanksgiving special. One woman I sat next to and shared Thanksgiving with said that she has no family but was glad to have had a Thanksgiving and felt like she was with family because everyone was so kind. Thank you!

If you would like to volunteer for Christmas, we have our annual Christmas toy give away coming up on Christmas as well as delivering and serving meals here at the mission. This is a time of great joy. Please e-mail LuAnne at lcgrm@qwestoffice.net if you would like to help. The hours would be in the morning and early afternoon on December 25th.

Also, if you have any questions regarding the rescue mission, thrift store, or clothing room, please feel free to e-mail me at lcgrm@qwestoffice.net or call me at 575-644-9563 (cell). Thanks!
LuAnne Burke, Admin. Asst.