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Operation Christmas Child has been collecting and delivering shoebox gifts—filled with school supplies, personal care items and fun toys—to children worldwide since 1993. Operation Christmas Child hopes to collect enough shoeboxes to reach another 11 million children.

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Megan Valdez, MSW, is the Director of Programs for Hope's Door New Beginning Center (HDNBC).  HDNBC is a domestic violence agency which has served northeastern Dallas County and Collin County for nearly 40 years.  Our mission is to provide intervention and prevention services to those impacted by violence, and to offer educational programs that boost the community’s capacity to respond effectively.  Megan has served children and families in some capacity for nearly 20 years.  Additionally, she serves her community as the co-chair of the North Texas Domestic Violence Awareness Coalition, as an executive board member for the North Texas Coalition Against Human Trafficking, and as an active committee member of the Child Abuse Prevention Coalition.  She is a graduate of Texas A&M Commerce School of Social Work, and lives in Wylie with her husband and two children.  

We will visit the current exhibit that includes Mourning Customs of the Victorians, Dia de los Muertos, as well as two new-to-us exhibits on the 1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast "Mass Hysteria and Fake News" and Houdini's efforts to debunk the spiritualists of the late 19th century.

Jericho Village™ Housing is an innovative approach to creating life empowerment by aiding people with transitional housing, support services, sustainable income stream development and other resources to function in the greater community by helping to stabilize their lives, with the intent of them becoming self-sustaining adults.

Learn more: https://jerichovillage.org/

Come learn what Reprensentative Keith Self is working on that will affect us here in Wylie.

Come learn about the long history and great deeds of the Wylie Christian Care Center. 

For more information, visit the website: https://hopebridgeprc.org/

The Hope Bridge Pregnancy Resource Center serves Wylie and the surrounding areas. All services are free and confidential. Each patient receives one-on-one care from trained advocates and nurses and is treated with value, worth, and dignity. At our Center, you’ll receive medically accurate information, full disclosure about legal rights and community support referrals. All patients are served and supported without regard to age, gender, race, income, nationality, religious affiliation or disability.