Welcom to Celebration of Love

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.

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.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn was in Austin on Monday, August 11, to visit the Capital Area Food Bank of Texas. Sen. Cornyn met with staff and volunteers to discuss the burden high fuel and food prices are having on non-profits like the Capital Area Food Bank and their ability to deliver assistance to those in need. As energy and food prices rise, the need for assistance from low-income families is growing. At the same time, non-profits are facing higher operational costs and difficulties in retaining volunteers due to the high cost of transportation.

The Celebration of Love team was there to support this great cause. Bottom right image is a picture of the Senator looking over a Celebration of Love packet outlining our plans for 2008.

Click here to see the Fox 7 Newscast of the event

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.

Click here to view video from the Fort Hood 2006 Celebration of Love Event!


Below - More than 50 bikes were given to children at the event	Below - Randy Phillips, General Rudeshem, Mike Hogan, Tom Ramsey


Below - Little Joe and Karla Cantu from Capitol Area Food Bank	Below - 3,000 toys were given to the children


Below - Richard Hight painted this work of art on-site for the troops	Below - Randy gave the new PCD CD to the families!

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

Click here to view SHCC 2007 COL Video