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Bears For Soldiers, BFS
Thank you to everyone that helped with BFS this year! We collected 675, thank you very much!
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The BFS mission is to collect small beanie baby sized stuffed animals to send overseas to soldiers.
This year the drop off places are the following: 1. West Iredell High School 2. Country Legends in Town 3. Bethel United Methodist 4. Monticello United Methodist 5.Marvin United Methodist 6. Sharon Lutheran Church If you like to help, please drop off your gently used but not abused, or new stuffed animals and give them a good home, Thank you 1st Priority For the year of 2016 our first time doing this, BFS collect over 310 stuffed animals, around 50 came from WIHS, around 100 odd some came from Monticello Chruch. Thank you to everyone who helped with this drive. We hope to do it again.
The goal for BFS is to help soldiers gain the trust of the children and adults. If the children see that the soldiers are good guys, it can help save lives. There is a simple trust bond made over a stuffed animal. If a dangerous situation is happening, then there won’t be any children around. This can serve as a warning to the soldiers. Proverbs 3:27 says this: “Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.” We have the power to help the children; let’s take advantage of that. If you would like to donate a bear here are the requirements, the bear needs to be small, like a beanie baby, this is because the soldiers have to carrie the bears around, and a small stuffed animal is easier to carrie. The animal can be new or gently used, but not abused, meaning no thin places, missing limbs or eyes. WIHS, Bethel United Methodist Church, Untouchables in Conover, Crosby scholars, Iredell County Statesville office Sheriffs office and Monticello United Methodist Church. Here is the updated list of places. This stuffed animal drive will start on February 22nd 2016 and go through April 4th 2016.up BFS will hopefully be able to go on for many more years, this will be yearly. And as of right now BFS has over 227 stuffed animals. Thank you to everyone who has helped. For the 2016 year, we collected 350 stuffed animals |
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