Volunteers of Lake Country were invited to sponsor a child this Christmas as the November/ December Project. Members of our group seemed to love this project. We matched their requests (# of children/ages) with families in need. They called the mom's and received the child's wish/need list, shopped and delivered the gifts to the families. 122 children were sponsored by VLC members! 122 children that may not have had Christmas! The Executive Director of Christmas Clearing Council said, "No group, in our 60 year history has ever sponsored as many children for Christmas!" Talk about the generosity of strangers.... We received many wonderful emails about this first time experience for families, here is just one:
"I found sponsoring to be an extremely rewarding experience! I will definitely do it every year! Not only was it wonderful to see the children that I was helping, but it was an amazing experience to sit and talk with the mother. I think it gave her hope to hear how I had come through some of the bad times in my life. I know the both of us had a better Christmas this year! Thank You so much for making this possible!"
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