Get ready for our annual BIG EVENT in March!
We are excited to partner with Susan Tanner again for our BIG EVENT service project to assemble care kits for active duty service members.
We ask that you bring Items ordered through the Amazon wish list or from the complete list available on our website.
Amazon Wish List:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/37I33334RU23Q?ref_=wl_share
Since its introduction in 1982, The Big Event has become the largest one-day, student-run service project in the nation. Each spring, tens of thousands of Texas A&M students come together to say “Thank You” to the residents of Bryan and College Station by completing service projects such as yard work, window washing, and painting. To compliment the efforts of our Aggies, NETC Aggie Moms holds our own Big Event-themed meeting where we create care packages for soldiers stationed overseas. Many of these young people are the same age as our Aggies, and greatly appreciate the practical items sent via Susan Tanner with the Soldier Ministry at White's Chapel. Please see below for specifics on items to donate.
Soldier List (from Susan Tanner)
***Instead of buying a large assortment of various items, please buy multiples of like items. Each item has to be counted, weighed and noted on the customs forms with a limit of 15 lines per form.******
The first two items on this list are the most requested:
*Pictures and notes, drawn by kids
*Healthy snacks and food items they can carry into the field (especially protein items)
*UNEXPIRED food items: Unexpired snacks – protein bars, trail mix, nuts, Girl Scout cookies (NO PORK ITEMS)
*Gum, tic tacs (please don’t bring Lifesaver mints)
*Unexpired coffee, hot chocolate and drink mixes (Hawaiian Punch, Crystal Lite, electrolyte mixes, Mio, etc. – packets to pour into a bottle of water)
NON-FOOD ITEMS
*Toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss, nail clippers, tweezers, emery boards
*Shampoo, conditioner, lotion, vanity kits, sewing kits (travel ones are great)
*Shaving gel (in tubes only - no cans), razors (5 blades), shower gel, non-aerosol deodorant, laundry detergent pods, fabric softener sheets
*Name brand feminine hygiene items
*Foot fungal crème or powder
*Unscented baby wipes, Dude Wipes, Lysol or Clorox cleaning wipes
*Unexpired eye drops, muscle pain cream (or patches)
*Current magazines – no more than 3 months old (Women’s Health, Men’s Health, motorcycle/car magazines, fishing/hunting, guns; female mags. should be geared more toward younger ladies) Tear off or mark out your address information.
*Sunday comics
*Puzzle books, adult coloring books, colored pencils
*Small bibles, pens, crosses, rosaries, religious pocket coins (Please give religious items directly to me – these will be put in boxes to chaplains for them to distribute.)
IMPORTANT NOTES: Tobacco and aerosol products are not allowed. Products with alcohol in them are not allowed: perfume, hand sanitizer, nail polish, mouthwash, etc.
ALL LIQUID ITEMS, ITEMS THAT CAN MELT, ITEMS THAT CAN LEAK HAVE TO BE PUT IN ZIPLOC BAGS. IF YOU CAN DO THIS AHEAD OF TIME, THAT WOULD HELP. MULTIPLES OF THE SAME ITEM CAN BE BAGGED TOGETHER.
https://netcaggiemomsaggienetwork.membershiptoolkit.com/calendar/event/81884347
Also check out other Meetups in Colleyville.
