Oh the irony of Christmas. Here we find ourselves buying Christmas stockings to be filled, while there are children everywhere who receive NOTHING at Christmas. Please pray for God to bring in substantial donations for our Christmas Project. I have received propositions from many overseas teams in different countries ready to give gifts to poor children if we provide them. We need MEGA bucks to meet each demand. For example, read the proposition from Kazakhstan below: "Last year we prepared 650 gifts with a donation from you of $1000. These gifts were very minimal, less than $2 each. They were a notebook, 2 pens, 2 pencils and a handful of chocolates. We plan to take our program to 3 places this year; two orphanages where we are working regularly. One has approximately 250 children and the other 150. We also want to return to the women's prison where there are 50 mo"thers with children under 5 years old and 50 teenage girls. We would also like to give gifts to the children of needy families in our church, maybe 20-25. So, we could do the same as last year for the same $1000. That is my minimal proposal. I would like to reach the same groups, but with more substantial gifts. The children need more than one notebook-probably 3 or 4. Also, the orphanages are always asking us for toiletries. I would like to include a toothbrush, toothpaste and a bar of soap with each gift. Shampoo, deodorant, maybe hand cream for the older children, especially the teenage girls in the prison. I also want to include the candies again. Last year we bought 75 kilos of chocolates! These are the favorite thing of the kids, the other things in the gift are all too practical. I estimate the cost for these gifts to be $5 each and my second request would be for $2500 to do this project. Janey L. DeMeo President/founder of ORPHANS FIRST ; freelance writer. Website: _http://www.orphansfirst.org/_ (http://www.orphansfirst.org/) E mail: _Janey@..._ (mailto:Janey@...) Subscribe to the weekly prayer chain: _http://associate.com/groups/orphansfirst/_ (http://associate.com/groups/orphansfirst/) -- Browse years of Orphans First Prayer Requests: http://welovegod.org/groups/orphansfirst/ To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: orphansfirst-unsubscribe@...