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Fort Hood COL Event - December 5th, 2009

The Celebration of Love Team joined forces with Promise Land West of Austin and Army Community Services (ACS) of Fort Hood to provide Christmas gifts to more than 1,700 military families. This was the 4th Annual Celebration of Love Christmas outreach program at Fort Hood. The previous three years have reached a combined total of more than 5,000 families. Each Fort Hood family received a gift box containing a frozen turkey and all of the traditional components equivalent to a Thanksgiving meal. Every child in attendance received a Christmas present and brand new bikes were given to 125 children. An estimated total of 4,500 toys were distributed. Special thanks to all of the wonderful volunteers and sponsors that made this event possible.

Bike Assembly Party at Fort Hood 11/21/2009

More than 30 men and women volunteered to assemble 125 brand new bicycles in preparation for the Dec 5th, 2009 Celebration of Love Outreach at Fort Hood. Imagine the joy on the children's faces as they receive the bikes on that special day.

Pictured below are :Top left and bottom right is Katelyn Hogan (age 5) who volunteered to inspect all of the bikes for quality assurance. Top right is Bernard Curtis from PromiseLand West. Middle right is Bret Williams, also from PromiseLand West. Bottom left is Board Member, Clint Smith and Program Manager, Monica Ramsey.

A special thanks to Howard Chase, John McCambridge and Chaplain Jon Tidball for arriving a day early to deliver the bikes.

Also thanks to everyone to participated!

Click here to see our thank you letter to the volunteers.

 

The ROC reopens to the public

The new and improved Reaching Out Center (ROC) was reopened to the public on February 27th, 2009. Our Grand Opening was a tremendous success! We fed over 60 families on our very first day! On the second day we fed over 90 families!

The ROC is open every Friday from 2PM to 5PM and is located at 15630 Vision Drive in Pflugerville, TX next to Snappy Snacks Mobile Catering.

Fort Hood COL Event - December 6th, 2008

December 6th, 2008 - 1,375 military families at Fort Hood were blessed by the Celebration of Love outreach. This was the 3rd Annual Celebration of Love event at Fort Hood and it was a tremendous success!!! Special thanks to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and to all of the sponsors and volunteers that made this event possible.

1st picture on the right shows an awesome picture of the gratitude shown for the soldier's families moments before the event began.

Click here to view a video clip of this amazing event!

Pflugerville COL Event - December 13th, 2008

On Saturday, December 13th over 1,200 Central Texas families were blessed at the Celebration of Love Outreach at Snappy Snacks

Mobile Catering in Pflugerville, TX.  Santa Clause himself flew in on his North Pole helicopter to greet every child in attendance

(see pictures below). This truly was a Celebration of Love! Special thanks to Round Rock ISD for their help in making this event such a success.

1300 Military Families fed at Fort Hood

On Saturday, December 8th, 2007, 1300 Fort Hood Military families were blessed at the "Celebration of Love" outreach hosted by PromiseLand West of Austin, Army Community Service, and the Fort Hood Installation Chaplain's Office. Each family received a Christmas box that included a turkey, canned vegetables, milk, bread and pie. Also, every child in attendance received a special gift from Santa Clause.

Over 250 volunteers were on hand including a Grammy Award winning Tejano Legend, "Little Joe" as well as Randy Phillips and Dan Dean of the top selling Christian band, "Phillips Craig and Dean". Peggy Joyce Ruth, author of the best selling book "Psalm 91", was on hand to give and autograph a book for each family and Richard Hight was there to paint one of his amazing works of art for the soldiers. Also in attendance were several prominent Fort Hood military officers.

This event was our way of giving back to our soliders and their families who give so much on behalf of our freedom.

We would like to thank everyone that made this event possible. So many of you gave of your time and your resources to make this event a tremendous success! God bless you for what you did for our soldiers!

Please take a moment and read a letter that one of our wonderful volunteers wrote about her personal experience. Click here.

 

1600 North Austin Families fed

On Saturday, December 15th, 2007, 1600 families were fed at the "Celebration of Love" outreach hosted by Snappy Snacks Mobile Catering at the Foreman-Phillips Reaching Out Center in Pflugerville, TX. Round Rock ISD stepped up to the plate again this year and distributed vouchers to families in need. Click here to view the 2007 COL North Video


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