Each year OAM Philly works with Sidewalk Sunday School and a few small inner city churches to provide Christmas stockings filled with special treats for inner city boys and girls.
Many churches have wonderfully provided these stockings for the children. Usually a group within the church makes the stockings out red felt (for the girls) and green felt (for the boys) or out of red and green sturdy fabrics.
Recently, churches have also been buying the stockings that are already made - red stocking with a white lining around the top. The are fine to use as long as :
1. they are designated one the outside as
either for a boy or a girl
OR
2. they are filled with items that can be
used by either a boy or a girl.
The churches provide small new presents to "stuff" into the stockings.
Various stocking stuffers have included:
candy, pencils, coloring books, balls,crayons, dolls, play dough,stickers, small stuffed animals, barrettes, matchbox cars, jump ropes, and more.
These stockings are then shipped to us around the first week in December, and we organize them and get them ready for distribution to children.
This is a great project that most people in the church can help with in some way.
Email us and let us know if you are interested in helping with this project.
One thing most students have in common in the fall-- it's back to school time. OAM Philly will be working again with Sidewalk Sunday School and other organizations to help provide students with items necessary to make a good start in their school year.
Churches collect items such as :
pencils
pens
notebooks
binders
tablets
notebook paper
erasers
crayons
sharpeners
rulers
protractors
colored pencils
binders
folders
pencil boxes
A few churches sent backpacks that we were able to fill and give out to students.
All you need to do is let us know you'll be participating in collecting these items. You can place a box in your church and let the members know that you are collecting Back to School supplies.
We'll let you know how to get them to us, so they can be distributed to students in the inner city.
Let us know if you are interested in helping with this project:
Interested in helping with a missions project?
We have two yearly projects that we sponsor and we would love to have more help with them. Read about each one below and let us know if you are interested in participating with us.
PROJECT ONE
BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLIES
PROJECT TWO
CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS
