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Check out News 14 Carolina's story on the need this holiday season...

http://news14.com/sandhills-news-47-content/top_stories/616055/salvation-army-volunteers-anticipate-great-holiday-need

Ways for GROUPS to Help this Christmas

Do you have a group? It can be a youth group, church group, school organization, ladies bunco group, neighborhood or just a few like-minded friends. Gather them up and give them these idea for volunteering this Christmas:

1. Ring the Bells! Groups such as the Kiwanis Club, Fayetteville Observer and Embarq employees have been choosing a day and ringing the bells at the Salvation Army Kettle at Cross Creek Mall for years now. Groups via for the coveted bell trophies given out for most donations in a single day. Why not be a part of this friendly competition and get everyone on board in your group! Simply choose a date, call us to see if it's still available (483-8119) and plan your strategy! Plan to have volunteers on hand from 10am until 9pm on your day. Encourage your group to dress up for the occassion, ham it up by singing a Christmas carols, offer candy canes to kids, etc. The more fun you make it, the more donations you will receive!
2. Host a Drive! Toys and food are ALWAYS needed this time of year! Brainstorm ideas to collect items to donate. Last year, a local golf course community incorporated a canned food drive into a golf cart parade led by Santa. They place boxes around the neighborhood and put out flyers encouraging neighbors to donate. Be creative! A local Girl Scout troop solicited by asking friends and neighbors to donate ONE single can of food each. How many people do you think donated JUST one can? Not many!
3. Carol for Donations! Some very special people have a tradition of caroling for donations for The Salvation Army in their neighborhood. The Sky Drive and Summertime Road Gang choose a date each year and let their neighbors know what date they will be caroling. Their neighbors can signal that they'd like to be serenaded (and donate) by leaving on their porch light. Last year, this group raised nearly $40,000 in a single evening!
4. Volunteer! Many hands are needed to make Christmas happen for so many children each year. Help by looking at this volunteer opportunity: http://salvationarmyfayetteville.blogspot.com/2009/09/volunteers-needed.html More opportunities to be added soon!

Ways to Help The Salvation Army this Christmas!

There are many ways an individual can help The Salvation Army help others this Christmas. Here are a few of the INDIVIDUAL ways you can help:

Host a Food or Toy Drive - It's fairly simple, really. Grab a box (or two or three), wrap it nicely in Christmas wrapping paper (not required, but it sure will get people in the holiday mood), and place a sign on it large enough for people to read it. For example : TOY DRIVE FOR THE SALVATION ARMY. Please place new, unused toys in this box that will be given out to needy children who don't get adopted from The Salvation Army Angel Tree. Get the toys to us by Dec. 14th!

• Food donated is used in our Food Pantry and is given to those in need.
• Toys donated will be used for children who do not get adopted from the Angel Tree.

Ring the Bell at a Kettle - We have kettle locations (TBA) all over our area, so pick a date and commit to ringing the bell at a location. All that is required is a cheerful demeanor! Hours available for individuals: Friday and Saturdays from 1-3pm

Volunteer in our Christmas Warehouse - We will be packing gifts from Dec. 16 - 19 at our Christmas Warehouse! Come join in the fun and see how it all works!

For all of these volunteer opportunities, please email: salvationarmyfay@yahoo.com to sign up. If you have no access to email, then call Jackie at (910) 644-5261. Email is preferred because this is such a busy time of year.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!

It's Christmas time again! Not really, but to us at The Salvation Army the rush is already beginning! We need many elves to make sure we can provide Christmas to all who are in need this year!

Oct. 19 - 23 and 26 - 30
We will be taking applications for Christmas Assistance (ie. Angel Tree program)

We need volunteers to help with applications from 8:30am - 11:30am and 11am - 1:30pm
Requirements:

• Legible handwriting
• Empathy for others
• Cheerful demeanor!

Think you can help? We need LOTS of helpers (10 per day to start with!)

Call Jackie Godbold at 644-5261 or email: jackiegodbold@embarqmail.com

See How Our Garden Grows!

This is the bounty picked just yesterday from the Love Garden at our homeless shelter.

If the veggies cannot be used in the next day or so, they are given away to people in need right here in our community.

Krispy Kreme Partnering with Salvation Army for National Doughnut Day!

Stop by the Fayetteville Krispy Kreme location this Friday, May 5th and get a free doughnut of your choice to celebrate National Doughnut Day! While you're there, put some change into The Salvation Army Red Kettle for Kids 2 Kamp.