Ideas for Supporting the Troops

Go to your local grocery store or dollar store, load up on drink mixes. The small cans that contain 6 tubs that makes 2 Qts. each, or the small boxes that contain the packets that make 1 Pt. each are the easiest to ship. As long as they will fit in the shipping box you should have no trouble. Fill up a flat-rate box from the post office, and ship all you want for one price.

Send to:
Operation Quench,
C/O Soldiers' Angels,
1792 E. Washington Blvd.,
Pasadena, CA., 91104

While you are in the Grocery store, pick up a couple of large bags of hard candies, bubble gum pops, packs of gum, and lollipops. Grab a couple of bags each time you are in the store, and when you get enough, send a box full to:

Send to:
Operation Sweet-Tooth,
C/O Soldiers' Angels,
1792 E. Washington Blvd.,
Pasadena, CA., 91104

This is a perfect idea for large groups of kids, whether it be School Classes, Sunday Schools, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, etc. 

Have the kids save all the pennies and loose change they can find for a month. Make it a contest with prizes for the child who brings in the most change.

Pool all the change together and turn it in to the facilitator, who can then get a money order ready to send to: Pennies for Heroes, C/O Soldiers' Angels, 1792 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA., 91104

Cup of Joe for a Joe: Cup of Joe for a Joe. Go to http://www.greenbeanscoffee.com/coj/index.php and buy a Soldier a cup of Joe.

A good project for School classes, Sunday Schools, Scout Troops, or Auxilliariy clubs would be sending cards and letters to the Troops. Have the group write several boxes of letters to soldiers titled "Dear Soldier." See if you can find some stores or card shops that might still have Christmas cards stuck back in storage from last year. Make them an offer to take some of them off their hands. Write up as many as you can with just the title "Merry Christmas from Home." Do the same with Valentine Cards, Easter Cards, Birthday Cards or whatever you can find. Blank note cards are good, too. Write the letter or card, then put it in the envelope, but don't seal it. They will be checked before being sent, either here or at the destination. BE WARNED: No one has the time to play around with letters or cards that are unfit. Just one inappropriate letter or card and the whole box of cards and letters may end up in the next campfire. Do not address the envelopes. Put all the letters and cards in a USPS flat-rate box and ship it to: "Letters from Home", C/O Soldiers' Angels, 1792 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA., 91104