Step by Step: Christmas for Our Troops .....

If you haven't checked-out this post from Wallace at Streams, then you should ... then you should get involved in Christmas for Our Troops.

This is a Midland-based effort that "provides individual Christmas boxes full of a variety of gifts, necessities and goodies for our local men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. These boxes will be shipped the first week of December via Priority mail to ensure that our troops have a package from home in their hands before Christmas Eve. This is a non-partisan private effort to give West Texans the opportunity to give a little something back to the military folks who give so much for us and this country."

The latest step in this year's effort took place last night at First Presbyterian Church of Midland, where about 35 young people assembled and stacked shipping boxes, getting them ready to be filled, sealed and mailed overseas. In addition to those from First Prez, I am told, we also had kiddos from Lee High School, Stonegate Christian Fellowship and Midland College.

There are other steps coming in the days ahead ... and other opportunities to for YOU to get involved. For more information, please contact CFOT Chairman Scott Davis at (432) 620-8820, or e-mail capatazhsd@sbcglobal.net . He'll tell you about ways you can contribute your time and effort, or about what is needed to fill those boxes the kids have assembled.

You can also make a financial contribution by contacting Western National Bank ("Christmas for OUR Troops Fund"), 508 W. Wall Street, Midland, Texas 79701.