Every child deserves to feel the magical moment of opening a
present early Christmas morning. With the help of Buffalo Dream Center, many
children can experience that pure happiness.
The Buffalo
Dream Center’s Boxes of Love project helps out families in need with a wrapped
Christmas gift for each child and a bag of nonperishable food. Distribution
this year will be on Dec. 10, said Eric Johns, Dream Center pastor.
Buffalo
Dream Center, an outreach Christian ministry in the inner city, is signing up volunteers
to wrap gifts at its 318 Breckenridge St. headquarters. More than 1,000
volunteers have signed up in recent years.
“The week after Thanksgiving, volunteers start
to come in and help wrap the gifts for the community,” Johns said.
Pastor Johns spends the week of Thanksgiving
living with the homeless using the opportunity to spread the word among the
streets.
Its Boxes of Love project began in 1999 assisting a few
families with Christmas toys and bag of groceries but over the years has assisted
3,000 families and 5,000 children. By
Tiera Daughtry and Vincent Nguyen
