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Join us in Operation RescueZone!

Overview of Operation RescueZone:

Chaplains help hurting children and their families in your neighborhood and around the world.

• Some chaplains serve in the military. Military chaplains help the brave men and women who serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines—especially when they are far away from their friends and families.
• Other chaplains are pastors who work with hospitals, search and rescue teams, fire departments, and police.

The money you give will be used to set up an emergency fund to help our chaplains to help hurting children and adults and to buy special stuffed bears. The emergency fund allows the Chaplaincy Ministries to provide emergency supplies, Bibles and storybooks that can be given to children at home and overseas, and phone cards that allow men and women on active duty in the military to talk with their families.

How You Can Get Involved:

• Commit to having a fundraiser at your church. Contact Marianne by email or at 888.588.1600 ext. 813.
• When you commit to a fundraiser we will send you a letter from Chaplain Murdoch and a stuffed bear to help your church family get excited.
• Get kids involved by using themed coloring sheets:
• RescueZone Coloring Collection
• Military Men
• Bed Time Prayer
• Bear Brings Joy
• Pray for chaplains around the world as they minister to families in need.

Stories from current chaplains:

• Chaplain T. B. “Tom” Webber befriends Iraqi family and provides money for the mother to have much needed surgery. Read the full story Healing a Family in Iraq.
• Chaplain Randy Curry provides toys for solders to give to Iraqi children who have nothing. Read the full story Simple Toys Show Love.
• Chaplain helped little kids see their parents. Moms and dads in Iraq read to their children by using a videotape recorder. Read the full story A TV and a Hug.
• Children around the world love to play “Duck, Duck, Goose.” Chaplains use simple games to communicate love with kids who do not speak english. Read the full story Duck, Duck, Goose.
• Pastor Matthew Smith, a volunteer chaplain with a New York police department, had to share bad news to a firefighters family. Learn how he broke the news to the family in Sharing Sad News and the Good News.

Where to send your offering for Operation RescueZone:

• Checks are to made payable to Operation RescueZone
• Mail checks to:

Operation ResccueZone
1300 N. Meacham Road
Schaumburg, IL 60173