We have a friend from church who recently deployed with the national guard. He is going to be stateside for a few months before he ships out to Afghanistan. As he was deploying, I felt like it was really important to 1.) Pray for him (his name is Jordan if you would like to join in praying for him with us) and 2.) Send him care packages. But having never sent care packages to people in the military, I had no idea what to include: enter Google. If you search "how to send a care package to a soldier" you will see 439,000 pages of do's and don'ts for sending care packages. Some pages are written from people who send them often, some are from soldiers who receive them, and some are even from food safety specialists on how to not have your package spoil in the heat. It really is awesome. I'm glad I read through it too, because there are definitely some good tips that I never would have thought of (i.e. send M&M cookies instead of chocolate chip because the candy coating will help keep the chocolate from melting).
Since our friend is going to be stateside for a little while where mail is more reliable, we opted for Cheryl's for the first package (it was really hard not to get one for Jordan and one for Katie and Joe too).
Though I will definitely be employing some of the new really awesome tips I found for the next one.
If you are interested, some really great resources I found were:
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