I love my church. I feel like the members at Crestview really have a heart for the poor in our community. Every year, we have a toy drive to benefit Mission Waco. This is a wonderful organization in town that helps give the poor and destitute a hand up. A toy store is opened during Christmas and the poor are able to buy the donated gifts for their children at drastically reduced prices. This helps give the parents ownership in the process.
I love how the toys are collected! On the first Sunday after Thanksgiving, a group of motorcyclists known as The kids get a kick out of all the noise and they are able to take pictures on the bikes. It is always fun hearing the roar down the street in anticipation of them coming!
This year, Matthew and Thomas asked that everyone coming to their birthday party bring toys for Mission Waco instead of giving them to the boys. They were so proud this morning to hand the toys to the bikers knowing that many of them were donated by them. The head of Mission Waco talked to Matthew and told him that many little girls and boys would be happy because of his decision to give his toys. He was so happy!
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What a cool ideal! I bet your boys loved it!
I hope you realize that you have (2) special little boys.
Mary E.
I just love this story! Your sons must have great parents that are teaching them about sharing!!
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