Our Prayer Bear program was the inspiration behind a project at a Lutheran School in Texas. Karen Netherton, a teacher at the school and former Joplin resident, passed along our Prayer Bear program to the school; they just put their own twist on the idea. They called it the Teddy Bear Chapel Challenge. The kids were challenged to raise money to purchase “Build a Bears”.
The Girl Scouts helped out by making 75 bears with the money raised. The bears will sit in the church pews for four weeks. They will then be given to shut-ins, a nursing home and to folks that are hospitalized. So you see, you never know when seeds are planted where they may grow…