Back To School Event - The Safe Side

Our Children's Equipping Center and the West Orange Food Pantry came together to bring to the community a Back To School Event called The Safe Side. We had 150 kids come to our missions base this past Saturday.

Joleen is the Director of our Children's Equipping Center and Ken is the Food Pantry together. These two arteries of our missions base came together to bring this to past.
We got everyone registered and seated inside. We then first showed this movie called "The Safe Side". I recommend this DVD highly. It teaches our children how to stay safe without scaring them.We were nicely surprised at all the families that came out for this.
We then had a dad, mom and their 8 year old daughter that gave self-defense examples to the kids.
They showed us different examples of self defense that each chidl could use if they ever needed to.

They even pulled out a child from the audience to let him try it so the kids could see how easy it was to learn each exercise.

Then there was a question and answer session.

We then gave away 150 brand new backpacks to each child.Each bag was jam packed with brand new school supplies.

We also had donated brand new tennis shoes . . so many of the kids received brand new shoes.The police department came and finger printed the children.
What a great day it was!

Thanks to the CEC and WOFP for putting together this great and much needed event.