New toys help dads at the Mission connect with their kids and grandkids over Christmas. For some of the men, this is the first time in a long while they’ve been able to give anything to their kids. During our toy giveaway, dads and grand-dads actually select the specific unwrapped toys that they want to give to their children.
After lovingly selecting toys for each individual child, the dads and grand-dads wrap and label each gift. Each man is able to give one or two main gifts and about 5 or 6 stocking-stuffers to each child (including some things too big to fit in a stocking, like board games, coloring books, puzzles and the like!).
In all, the 55 men who call the Mission home while working to rebuild their lives were able to reach out to 186 of their children and grandchildren with over 1,300 toys. Some graduates were able to join in, too, bringing the total number of children up to 200 and the gifts to over 1,400!
Big thanks to everyone who donated awesome toys and to those volunteers whose help made things go so smoothly! Your gifts were presents not only to the children of men at the Mission, but they were gifts to the men themselves. You gave the gift of giving, opening up the door for men to be blessed as they give good gifts to their children.
Please keep praying with us that God would help the men of the Mission be the best dads they can be to their precious children by God’s grace and because of the love of Jesus, our Emmanuel whose birth we celebrate with these gifts! Thanks!!
We recently had the joy of celebrating four very special graduations this September. John, Greg, Neil and Herb each completed the Mission’s rigorous New Life Program, is gainfully employed and no longer homeless. They all testified at their graduation ceremony that God has done great things in their lives.
