Abe & Sarahs Kids Drive

Most of you know that Adam and I help with the AWANA program at Machias Community Church in Snohomish.  We have been leading it for four years (wow- is it four? I am not sure..) and each October we like to start a drive.  Sometimes it is for the local food banks, last year it was for a troubled youth shelter.  This year we have organized a drive for Abe & Sarahs Kids.  This program puts together what they call loads of love to be distributed to our local social workers in the event that a child is removed from their home to be placed into the foster care system.  Sometimes the kids have nothing- and imagine receiving a backpack that contains any of the following: new pajamas, underwear, socks, toothbrush, brush, bible, blanket, etc.  It isn't much, but it IS. We are collecting items for ages 4 and up.  Usually baby items come in droves, but what about those older kids?  Our drive has kicked off and is going very well!  The boys are battling the girls with a coin drive. 

Part of running AWANA and organizing a drive involves rewarding the kids if they reach their goal.  This one was pretty fun- it was a food drive.  The goal was to collect 500 food items to donate to the local food bank.  If they reached that goal, Adam would get pied.  (By EACH child.)  Then they surpassed that goal and we rewarded them further- Adam would wear a dress while being pied.  I love that man!  There he was, in my princess Halloween costume.

Splat!!

 The final result- happy kids, a bountiful donation, and learning about the importance of giving to others.  If you would like to donate to the Abe & Sarahs Kids cause, check out their list of current needs.  It's a worthy cause.  Happy Thursday!♥♥♥