Seasons Greeting!
As we finish out this year and enter into the Christmas season I wanted to let you know how all of our events went.
Candyland Christmas
Each year Foster the Family hosts a Christmas party for the children in foster care in southern New Jersey. They are expecting over 300 children to come out and enjoy a celebration with their foster families! This year the theme is “Candyland”. Each child will have the opportunity to decorate their very own gingerbread house. We had 12 generous individuals donate towards this cause. We were able to donate a big box of goodies! The party is scheduled for this weekend so keep those kids and this event in your prayers.
Toys to Traditions
Instead of loading children up with gifts that they often can’t bring along when moving from house to house, Foster the Family has started a new tradition. In the place of gifts, each child, along with their foster family, will have the opportunity to experience the Christmas Lights Show at either Johnson’s Corner Farm or DIggerland. With over 30 amazing volunteers we were able to sponsor 113 children in foster care for a total of $1695 raised. We started with a goal of sponsoring 20 children. When this goal was met in the first few days we increased that goal to 50. Seeing the final number of children at 113 is truly a blessing. We can’t thank you enough for the blessing you are to these children.
Adopt a Student
Each year we “adopt a family” and this year we switched it up just a bit to “adopt a student”. We worked alongside Denbo-Crichton School in Pemberton Township to purchase Christmas gifts for 10 of their students. With our amazing partner, TLE in Marlton, and our awesome volunteers we were able to collect great gifts for all 10 students and even had some gift cards for the caregivers.
As this year comes to a close I just wanted to express my overwhelming thanks to each of you and the support you extend to this ministry. Working on events for Shine is such a rewarding experience and it is only made possible by the amazing people behind it. We certainly couldn’t do it without you.
Be sure so check out the pictures below and have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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