troop letter: Bob Williams

January 08, 2009

Greetings to all!

Christmas for the Troops 2008
If you are involved with any size group, such as Sunday School classes, adult groups, civic organizations, or any businesses that would like to help with this project, it would be greatly appreciated. 

We are asking for 1-gallon Ziploc bags filled with candy, snacks, food, notes, or anything nonperishable and non-liquid. Toiletry items should be bagged separately from food items. You can also put e-mail addresses and return addresses of adults in the bags so that you may receive responses from the troops you have helped.

We are trying to collect 40,000 stuffed bags so that we can send them out to our troops as Christmas gifts. In order for the bags to arrive on time with the holiday mail, we must have them no later than the end of October to send out to the chaplains at the different bases. The chaplains will distribute them at the appropriate time.  Believe me, nothing says, ‘we love you and our prayers are with you’ like a goodie bag at Christmas time from someone you don’t know who is all the way back home. 

Last year we were able to ship 25,000 gallon bags over to 11 bases in forward deployed areas. The chaplains loaded them in Humvees Christmas Eve and delivered them to each and every one of our troops. The overwhelming response from the chaplains was “that was the best Christmas they had ever had when they were deployed for both themselves and our troops”.

I would be happy to come and speak to any groups interested in participating. Please remember that we must have all the bags in house by the end of October to get them shipped out in time.

Thanks so much for all of your help and support!

Bob Williams
P. O. Box 7560
Wesley Chapel, FL 33545-0110
or
29807 State Road 54
Wesley Chapel, FL 33543

1-800-367-3591
813-991-9400-office M-F 0500-1700 S-S 0500-1200
813-334-1087-cell 24/7-365