When the volunteers knocked on a trailer door a little girl answered, she called for her father. The volunteers asked the father how many lunches they needed for his family, he told them they would need 8.
He was then asked, "How is your Christmas going?"
The father responded, "We are better than others, but we had an unexpected thing happen a few days ago. My wife's sister lost her home in Ohio and had to move her and her three children in with us. We received gifts for our three kids from the Rescue Mission, which we appreciated. We didn't have gifts for my sister-in-law's kids. So what we did was we wrote all six kids names on all the gifts and told them that Santa knew they could share. So while this Christmas has not been the best, it could have been worse."
Our volunteers got the names and ages of the children, called in the need to our Christmas Day gift center and a present was given to each child. The 8 year old girl opened hers and said,
"I knew Santa would bring me a Barbie Doll!!"
The volunteers left with tears in their eyes.
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