Christmas for the Mountains – 2025
Gift Bags for Teens
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina is on a mission to share the love of Christ with teenagers across western North Carolina this Christmas!
Join us in filling gift backpacks with supplies and gift cards to bring a little extra joy to their holidays.
Let’s make their Christmas brighter together!
Click image to download flyer.
This Christmas season, we’re partnering with CBF Field Personnel Scarlette Jasper’s Olive Branch Ministry, which has coordinated Christmas Boxes for Appalachia for the past 11 years. Last year, this initiative provided over 4,000 boxes to local schools in the Appalachian region of Kentucky and Tennessee, in some of the poorest areas of America. Through our partnership, Christmas Boxes for Appalachia will add an emphasis on teenagers in those regions and now in western North Carolina.
Many of the programs that have provided Christmas for families in WNC are back up and running this year, but there is always a shortage of gifts for teenagers. That is why we are coordinating this effort to provide Christmas gift bags/backpacks filled with items and gift cards for teenagers. Like last year, we will work through the CBFNC churches in WNC to distribute the gifts you all share. Our goal is to provide 250 bags/backpacks to teens in WNC; anything donated over that will be contributed to Christmas Boxes for Appalachia.
How You Can Help
1.Donate money or items to fill the bags.
- Send $65 for each bag and we will fill the bags. OR
- Take the list and shop for items to fill the bags as a group or individually. Please fill one, two-gallon ziplock bag per teen & we will drop them into the backpacks.
Download the shopping list here.
2.Donate gift cards for food and stores in WNC.
They will be distributed to families in the area through our CBFNC churches.
Where to Send/Drop Off Donations
- TRIAD: CBFNC Office, 2640 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27106
- WESTERN: Mars Hill Baptist Church, PO Box 216, Mars Hill, NC 28754
- EASTERN: Oakmont Baptist Church (drop-off item donations only), 1100 Red Banks Road, Greenville, NC
- If you are able to provide items to fill 20 or more bags, we will have someone pick up the items from you.
DROP OFF/SEND ALL DONATIONS BY DEC. 10
Download an informational flyer to share HERE.
QUESTIONS?
Contact Wanda Kidd at DR@cbfnc.org or 828-507-5723
