Blankets & Bears 5K Race & Walk

Blankets & Bears sole fundraiser event is underway! Our 5K Race and Walk is Saturday, August 20th in Amarillo at MediPark on Streit Drive near Botanical Gardens.

7 am registration 8 am RACE

$25

First 50 registered get FREE t-shirt!

Registration forms at http://lonestarrunnersclub.net

If you dont run or walk you can always help out on race day with registration, lead car and follow car drivers.

Also any business or people wanting to sponsor and have their logo or name appear on our shirts can contact Tori Durst at 806-679-0380.

Partnering with Mission Trip to Deliver 650 Bear Hugs

Community Worship Center and Blankets & Bears partnered up to help deliver over 650 bears or stuffed animals for the Perryton church's mission trip this summer. They will be delivering these bears to children in a christian school who have never received a birthday present before, to a children's cancer hospital and to two different orphanages in Nicaragua. Thanks to everyone who has donated a gently used bear to help make this possible! The couple helping to manage this mission trip is leaving their ministry at the church in Perryton just two weeks after they get back from Nicaragua to do mission work in the Philippines to find out more about then check out their blog at http://www.silveyblog.com/p/support.html

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Check out our interview from this morning on KAMR about donation drive at Highland Park ISD and dont forget about our 5K Funraising race and walk in August at Medi Park!

Blankets & Bears Christmas Tree

This is a christmas tree donation drive that a church in Lousiana. Just this week we received two large boxes from their drive. Love the idea and the love from this church! We met up with the church on a multiple church mission trip to Laredo with Brother Price Harris earlier this year. Thanks Brother Richard Kaufman and members of the Martin Baptist Church!

Blankets & Bears Donation Drive Underway

Highland Park ISD is currently sponsoring a blankets and bears donation drive until February 18th. You can send any gently used blankets or bears with a highland park student to donate or take donations to Highland Park High School by Friday, Feb. 18th. They are also collecting canned foods for the High Plains Food Bank and helping with the Christian Relief Funds located here in Amarillo.

Blankets & Bears Race Date Set

We have set a 5K race for August 20th, 2011 at Medi Park...this year we are adding walkers for those of you who don't run but want to come out and support and help with the shipping costs for sending these blankets and bears to orphanages around the world. You can find entry forms at http://lonestarrunnersclub.net click on calendar and then scroll down to August. Race entry is $25, if you would like to sponsor the race and have your business logo or family name on the back of the tshirt please contact Tori Durst at 679-0380. If you would like to send any monetary support for shipping please mail checks to PO Box 1473, Panhandle, TX 79068 made out to Blankets & Bears.

Shipment to Good Shepherd Orphange

At the end of November we sent over 70 bears and blankets to Good Shephered Orphanage in Zimbabwe, Africa. We are hopping and praying that they receive the shipment safely, smoothly through customs and in time before the winter season in Africa.

Blankets & Bears Videos

Look me up on facebook...I have a video of who we are and why we do what we do...I also have a video of our mission trip to Laredo on my facebook page. For some reason I am unable to post them on my blogpage...look up Tori Durst!

Esther Foundation in Romania

These are pictures of little ones who have received a shipment of small new bears and receiving blankets that we shipped to Romania earlier this year. They are a christian pregnancy crisis center that helps women who are pregnant.

Shipment & Delivery

I am waiting on pictures, we shipped little receiving blankets and tiny new bears to a pregnancy crisis center in Romania a few months ago...as soon as I get those in I will post.

But just on Labor Day weekend we had the privilege of meeting up with a group of churches in Laredo, TX and hand delivered 42 teddy bears to boys and girls at a children's home there. It was a very humbling experience, we went to give love to give the tangible love of Jesus to kids through the form of our teddy bears but what God had planned on the trip was for us to receive love. We met up with four churches from Lousiana and brother Price Harris and all they could do was encourage us in our ministry and pray for us and lift us up with their love towards us...and of course the children's home was like heaven with trees planted all along the drive up to the doors set on a beautiful large property and with warm sisters in christ tending to the children. It was beautiful and each child came up to us shook our hands and said they were pleased to meet us..then we grabbed them and hugged them.