Stocking stuffers: Nancy Myers, Helen Reed, Karen Wesselman, Donna Chabot, Theresa Peoples, Nancy Nevius, LInda Smith, BJ Watson, Nancy Thomas and Emilia Bevington
Nancy Thomas
For the 11th year the Ladies Bible Study group has filled stockings for underprivileged children in East Dallas. These children are in the After School Ministry of Dorothy Moore’s Reconciliation Outreach Ministry. We became involved with this group while Dorothy and husband Bob lived at Robson before moving nearer the ministry.
We bought items to fill the stockings for 60 children, ages 5 to 16. Thank you to all that donated! The Material Girls donated the beautiful handmade stockings, thank you! My dentist, Dr. Ted Dunson of Southridge Dental in Denton, gave us age-appropriate toothbrushes, toothpaste and floss, thank you!
The children love giving their parents gifts but cannot afford anything. This year we gave them clear plastic ornaments which they filled with ribbon and tinsel. They wrote their names and Christmas 2016 with paint markers. Each one was very uniquely done.
On Monday, December 12, nine ladies (Nancy Nevius, Karen Wesselman, Helen Reed, Donna Chabot, Nancy Myers, Linda Smith, Theresa Peoples, BJ Watson and Emilia Bevington) helped me stuff the stockings. Then on Thursday the 15th Donna Chabot, Theresa Peoples, Karen Wesselman, Dr. Elizabeth Vaughan, Emilia Bevington, Nancy Nevius and I went to the ministry for the Children’s Christmas party. We handed out the stockings and helped the children wrap their gifts for their parents. It was a very special time with these precious children!