Chaplain Group Gets Packages to Troops Most in Need

Nothing lifts the spirits like receiving something from the home front. – Chaplain Michael Tomlinson 
This from Christian Newswire:
DENVER - Online care package provider Treats for Troops (http://www.treatsfortroops.com/) has teamed up with chaplains and officers from deployed units serving our country to get packages and messages of support into the hands of soldiers who seldom receive mail [...]

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Baghdad: Operation Homemade Cookies

We all need to know and feel that we are loved, and that is especially true when you live and work in a combat zone. – Chaplain Kari Maschhoff
This from the Christian Examiner:
Home sweet home: Chaplain uses cookies to reach out
By John Hall — ABP
BAGHDAD — For American military personnel serving in Iraq, there’s nothing [...]

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Bless the Troops with Prayer, Thanksgiving Text Message, Christmas Cards

Baghdad Prayer Patrol ministry has compiled a number of ways to support U.S. troops during the holidays, number one being prayer.
This from Baghdad Prayer Patrol: 
There’s no greater blessing you can give the troops than prayer,
so if you haven’t prayed yet, STOP NOW and PRAY!
Okay, Now that you’ve prayed, you can take another step to bless them in [...]

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Send coffee to U.S. troops

Boca Java Gourmet Coffee

Boca Java will roast your coffee to order, just for you. Choose any four coffee blends or flavors shown on site. Your coffee selections today will be roasted-to-order just for you, packed in 8-oz. stay-fresh bags and delivered to you in about a week. When you place an order, two 8-oz. bags [...]

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Camp Noah: helping children heal

Eight-year-old Emmily Woodward holds up a photocopied picture of her father, who got caught in a fire during a mission in Iraq as she talked with a group of 7- to 10-year-olds Wednesday, June 27, 2007, at Camp Noah in Baxter, Minn. The camp is a free day camp for children with parents serving in [...]

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‘Freedom Is Not Free’ aids wounded troops, their families and the families of the fatally wounded

By FREEDOM IS NOT FREE
The U.S. led invasion of Iraq, and the military efforts in Afghanistan to uproot the terrorist infrastructure, made headlines from the start. By 2005, however, casualty reports were barely making page six news. The American public had settled back into the mundane routine of daily life. In Iraq and Afghanistan, however, [...]

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‘America Supports You’: Communicating Support To the Military

“America Supports You,” a nationwide program launched by the Department of Defense, recognizes citizens’ support for our military men and women and communicates that support to members of our Armed Forces at home and abroad.

All across America, thousands of individual citizens, businesses, and groups – from local schools and establishments to nationally-known corporations and organizations [...]

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Operation Bedding Started As Soldiers Last Request

Mary Conboy shows a selection of items, including baby wipes and shaving cream, she sends to Marines in Iraq, at her Philadelphia home Wednesday, May 16, 2007. Five days before her son, Adam Conboy, was killed in Iraq in May of 2006, the 21-year-old called his mother and asked that she send 40 sets of [...]

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