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Bags and Bunnies benefits battered women's center

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Contributed by: Gateway Center on 3/21/2006

Last year, 10-yr old Kinsey Morley read a story entitled "Trash Bags are for Trash" in Chicken Soup for the Pre-Teen Soul that inspired her to change our 5- year old program of Bunny Hugs into Bags & Bunnies.

For the previous 5 years, our members brought in stuffed Bunnies one month before Easter, which we hugged and loved for a month before donating them to the counseling center at the Gateway Center for Battered Women. Kinsey came to Senior Minister, Rev. S. Tucker last year asking if we could provide the bunnies in rolling back packs for the kids. Rev. Tucker suggested we open it to any kind of suitcase or back pack and the ball began to roll. Oasis Center For Spiritual Living delivered 100 bags and teddy bears to Gateway last Christmas.

When the idea was presented to Gateway, spokesperson for Gateway said "You have no idea how important these bags are for the women and kids in our program. They need to keep a bag packed at all times in case they need to flee and these bags provide them with what they need to do that." Kinsey was very happy her idea made a difference.

The goal for this year is 1,000 bags and bunnies. Bags and bunnies can be delivered to Oasis Center for Spiritual Living through April 9th, 9940 East Costilla Avenue (1 block south and 4 blocks east of I-25 and Arapahoe Road) in Centennial. For more information, please call Rev. Tucker at (303) 662-1505.

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