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JOY Homeless Christmas Project

This project is an effort to raise money to buy Christmas gifts for the DC area homeless and deliver them on Christmas morning.

It began as a way to heal after a heartbreaking miscarriage shortly before Christmas last year. My husband and I were devastated and broken and Christmas just seemed unimportant anymore.  In an effort to honor the baby I had lost, I had asked my husband not to get me any Christmas gifts, and, instead, I bought and wrapped up gifts for the homeless. Seeing the smiles of joy on their faces knowing that someone cared enough to come bring them a gift on Christmas morning, brought my husband and I so much healing and joy, that we wanted to do it again this year.  

However, last year, I was only able to take 20 (which we had to divide up into 40 once we got there!) gifts and there were still so many homeless left  without a gift! While we were handing them out, they came running from different directions and it broke my heart when we had to tell them we had run out of gifts!  At that moment, we knew we needed to go back with more gifts this year. My goal is to have 100 gifts to give out!

What is raised here will go toward buying the gifts. What I am adding to each gift is:
Blanket (New blankets from Walmart @ $4.88 each)
Toothbrush
Toothpaste
Handwipes
Winter Hat
Winter Gloves
Tissue Pack
Snacks/Drink
Chapstick
Cough Drops
Steps to Christ Book
Small Bible
A gift like body spray, perfume, cologne, wordsearch book, etc
Boxes & Ziplock Bags & Wrapping Paper Needed

I have calculated that each gift will be about $15, so I'm trying to raise at least $1500.

(I will be providing the receipts on our FB page after I have bought everything.)

I'm excited to be able to continue this project of bringing JOY to homeless at Christmas each year in honor of our baby we lost and also in honor of the healing and joy God provided.

For the full story, visit our Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/JoyHomelessChristmasProject/

Here are a few pictures from last Christmas... (I had no idea my husband was taking pictures!)







Organizer

Sylvia N. Urrutia
Organizer
Potomac, MD

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