Join us on Saturday for the Blessing Of The Gifts," our annual project that collects toiletries and other small gifts for the Southern Oaks Girls School and other organizations, including HALO, the Women’s Resource Center, Bethany Apartments SAFE Haven and Focus.We have piles of donations from the CNH Campus Connection, the Olympia Brown Unitarian Universalist Church and other freinds -- various items that can be used to fill the stockings for this project. Items that are still welcome include toiletries of all kinds including hotel-size versions that you may have picked up on your travels plus other small gifts that might include stationery, socks, gloves, mittens, slippers and the like.
We'll be packaging the donations into from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at Lake House Health & Learning Center, 932 Lake Ave. First, we gather for a short mingling program. Then we package and bless the gifts, talk and snack.
Please join us to help - the more hands, the lighter the work - and it's fun, too. One of the attendees told me that the event was the most meaningful holiday event she had been involved with during last year’s holiday season.
If you are able, bring a donation of non-perishable food for the local food bank and/or items for the stockings. Bring a healthy snack if you wish to share. We'll have herbal tea, traditional black tea and hot cider available.
We also welcome the red net bags - the sort that are used to package onions and citrus fruits - which we recycle into "stockings" for the packaging. Please save what you have, and PLEASE cut the bag off at the TOP so that we can make best use of the bag.
If you're attending, call (262) 633-2645 to help us prepare. Above are some of the helpers from last year's event.
