Christmas Care
3,300 Gifts Delivered to 40 Crisis Agencies and Emergency Rooms
91.9/91.5 The Family's 14th annual ‘Christmas Care’ wrapped up with a record breaking donation of 3,300 brightly decorated Christmas gifts for people in need or in crisis at 40 area agencies and hospital emergency rooms.
The event has become a favorite for shelter staff and hospital emergency room workers who watch carefully for patients in crisis or lacking adequate clothing and who clearly need a Christmas Care gift.
“A little 4 year old boy was brought in who’d been badly abused. After being treated, we gave him a Christmas Care gift. It turned out to be the first and only Christmas gift he had EVER received. It meant so much to us to be able to celebrate that little boy’s very first Christmas ever with him. It broke our hearts, but warmed them too. It wouldn’t have happened without Christmas Care. Thanks to all of your listeners and people who donated those gifts. They do make a world of difference!” Kristen Hebert, St Mary’s Hospital, Green Bay
91.9/91.5 The Family wishes to thank all of the volunteer groups who stepped up to help, as well as everyone who filled a shoe box, inspected, sorted, and delivered them. Thanks as well to the emergency shelter and hospital staff members who will now place them in the hands of the needy.
Area residents were invited to fill a wrapped shoe box with new gifts like toys, mittens, and candy for someone in need, to label their gift for the age and gender of the recipient, and to deliver gifts to local collection sites by Dec. 6th. Christmas Care is co-sponsored, in a very active ways, Culver’s Frozen Custard of Darboy, Festival Foods Stores, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Pet Supplies “Plus” of Appleton. Christmas Care will return next year, November 9 -December 4, 2012.
For more information, call WEMI 91.9 Fox Cities 920-749-9364, WEMY 91.5FM Green Bay 920-499-9957 or toll free 800-236-9364.
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Christmas Care 2011 Information Kit
- blurb to copy into newsletters or bulletins
- fliers with gift suggestions (both full size and half sheet)
- most recent news release, including the list of recipient organizations
- stories and thanks from past recipients
2011List of Recipients
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•New Beginnings, Fond du Lac •NEW Community Shelter Green Bay •New London Medical Center •Oconto Hospital •Ripon Medical Center •Riverside Medical Center, Waupaca •Salvation Army, Fond du Lac •Salvation Army Chilton •Salvation Army Green Bay •Salvation Army Manitowoc •Salvation Army Oshkosh •Salvation Army Seymour Extension •Shawano Medical Center •Solutions Center, Men’s Shelter, Fond du Lac •Solutions Center, Women’s Shelter, Fond du Lac •St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Appleton •St. John's Warming Shelter, Green Bay •St. Mary’s Hospital, Green Bay •St. Vincent Hospital, Green Bay •Theda Clark Medical Center, Neenah
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- Thanks to our co-sponsors!
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