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| My wife and I have been using Prayer Bears in various ways with our foster children. Foster kids have suffered not only abuse and neglect -- they've also suffered the loss of everything they've known, their home, their family, most of their possessions. We will give them a Prayer Bear when they come and fill it with a variety of small toys, crayons, etc. Another way we've used them is to give to our foster children a Prayer Bear they leave us for their 'forever home.' We give them small toys, small books, photos of their time with us, etc. The night before they leave us, we have a little ceremony in which we ask God to bless the children, to remember their time with us, and to give them items to help them in their new home. Sometimes the other foster kids will give the departing ones the Prayer Bear.
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| Our Catholic church is sending the prayer bears to our soldiers in Iraq and asking them to share the bears with the children they meet everyday. Spreading GOD'S Love!!!! Miss Sue
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| We sent all our green prayer bears off to the Hopi people of Arizona. A group from our church is there this week doing a VBS program, a health fair, and food distribution. The note inside the pocket of the bear said, "I prayed for the Hopi people today at our vacation Bible school. This is your Prayer Bear. God bless you. " We had each child sign their first name and date the note after we had prayed. Our other prayer bears will go on to Africa. They children made 80 bears. God is good. They knew they were participating in a true mission project.
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