Christmas for the Kids

This family of 12 lost everything they owned in the Hurricane Sandy. They are temporarily housed in a hotel by FEMA. They are in great need and were extremely grateful for the blessing of the gift cards. — at Far Rockaway NY.

Maria is planning on studying the Bible with rebecca Rebecca Aponte-Young soon. Maria just gave birth this past Tuesday. She was thrilled to receive the gift cards! She has four children and is currently out of work. She was so thankful!!!

Chandra is currently studying the Bible with Laura Aponte and Jackie Lynch(Long Island CoC. Chaundra has 6 children and was so happy and thankful for the blessing of the gift cards.

Disaster Assistance Mission Feed the Kids Program

Thanks so much for all the follow up that Long Island and Far Rockaway Churches of Christ are doing. Take a look at all of these photos. This is what makes all of the hours, miles and hard work worth while. www.disasterassistancecoc.com Taken from Rebecca Aponte-Young FB post. Above photos are some families who are currently studying the Bible with our sisters from Long Island Church of Christ. Today, thanks to Disaster Assistance and an anonymous Brother from the LICOC, these families received gift cards to ToysRUS for each of their children! They were in tears with thankfulness. Praise God! $2300 worth of gift cards were purchased yesterday to be handed out to families in need who are currently studying the bible with us. God is good!

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Christmas for the Kids of Hurricane Sandy

We are going to be switching from our Feed the Kids Program to the Disaster Assistance Mission's Christmas For Kids program. In conjunction with Long Island Church of Christ we are going to be giving gift cards from Toys R Us to the kids parents so they can purchase Christmas presents. We are giving Tors R Us cards to better assure that the card is used to purchase something for the child. Long Island CoC has between 350 - 400 families that they are working with, the children of these families are the ones we will be helping. You to can still help just click on donate button to the right, this will take you to a secure paypal site. All you need to do is follow the instructions. Please donate $ 25, 50, 100 or more. We will get the gift cards and Long Island CoC members will deliver them. Help us bring a smile to a child Christmas morning.

Long Island Church of Christ Follow Up

Taken in part from Rebecca Aponte-Young's FB post. We have entered phase two of this work. We are no longer setting up tables and serving hundreds of people at a time in the streets of Far Rockaway or Coney Island. Instead we have taken the 300+ names that we collected while doing the phase one relief effort, and we are calling them one by one. And as we call, our list keeps growing. There are about 60 Christians from the Long Island Church of Christ involved in making phone calls, arranging deliveries, making deliveries, doing Bible studies in these people's homes, praying with people, etc. We are going door to door, case by case and delivering the Churches of Christ Disaster relief Effort goods/suppies to individual families, seeking to meet their personal needs and to get opportunites to share Jesus with them. Some of us are helping people find jobs and places to live. Many, many bible studies are being conducted. There have been a few Community Bible studies, where several people who live in a particular community are invited to come hear a gospel presentation. There is a tremendous work being done over here. Please pray for everyone's strength, that we may not grow weary in doing good, and that souls will be won over to the Lord. There is a Community Bible study today at our sister Jackie Lynch's home.

Disaster Assistance Hurricane Sandy

Photo below is two of the Elders from East Main Church of Christ, Murfreesboro TN that came to pick up the trailer they had left here for storage. I sent back our two largest generators with them so Don can have them repaired. Only one of our 4 generators is still working. Running on generators 24/7 has taken its toll on them. Our meal count is now 22,388. Long Island and Far Rockaway Churches of Christ have delivered over 10 semi loads of other supplies to many different areas. Long Island CoC has over 350 families that they are doing follow with.

Feeding the Kids in Far Rockaway NY

Today we did 934 meals in the pouring rain. We had our normal walkup people and our after school kids but also today we had a whole bus load of volunteers that were working in the area that came and picked up meals.

Happy Holidays To Everyone

Above are the Holiday cards I was going to send out but I am still trying to get out thank you letters to those of you who have sent donations so thought I would just say Happy Holidays and show you the card you would have received had we not been working a disaster in December.

Feeding The Kids-Far Rockaway NY

Today was another busy one. 568 meals all handed out here at the Mobile Headquarters. Over 450 of them were to the kids.