December 14 - Neighborhood Coat Drive

Our local newspaper had an article about a couple of the local schools and kids who don't come to school wearing coats.  They asked people to bring coats and such so I decided we'd better try and do something.  (Northern Indiana has had its fair share of news coverage so the country can see just how bad the economy is - borderline propaganda but there are quite a few families really struggling and if we can help we should!) We needed a Christmas service project.  It wasn't quite as extensive as I wanted but we did collect 2 bags worth of warm stuff.  Hopefully the kids got something out of the activity but we'll just have to keep planning ways to serve people - that's celebrating Christmas!