Care Packages

 
 
One of the biggest morale-boosters for our family is receiving a care package from friends and family in the USA! Days here can be very hard, so being surprised with a box of love (in the form of American goodies) is such a huge blessing to each one of us!

 

 
If you are interested in sending a care package, please find a wishlist below of some of our favorites that we can’t get here, and send me a quick message for our shipping address: cristaashworth@yahoo.com.
 
Shipping can be pretty expensive–ask your shipping office/post office about a flat-rate box for international packages, and that might really help. Another idea is to make the care package a group project for your Bible study or home group–that way each person could contribute a few small items plus a cash donation toward shipping costs. 🙂
 

Our Wishlist:

(Items with a * are used frequently)

Semi-sweet chocolate chips*

Light brown sugar*

Pure vanilla extract*

Baking soda*

Baking powder

Foil cupcake liners*

Boxed cake mixes*—white, yellow, red velvet

Boxed brownie mixes*

Candy corn/candy pumpkins

Reese’s Pieces

Mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Hershey Kisses, plain

Rice Krispies Cereal

Fruity Pebbles Cereal

Kind bars—lower sugar varieties, mint/chocolate is a favorite

Swiss Miss hot cocoa mix

Ranch seasoning mix*

Cholula hot sauce—original, chili lime and green pepper

Chili powder*

Ro-Tel, original and mild

Diced green chiles

Chiles in adobo

Puffs Plus tissues with lotion

Tums, Smoothies-mixed berry

**Tip for shipping that helps us on this end:

Please itemize your shipment on the shipping forms, or print out your own list with approximate prices for each item and tape it to the outside of the box. All boxes go through customs, and sometimes they keep them and make us go pay taxes on the stuff inside in order to retrieve them. But, if you declare the shipment as a “gift” on your shipping form, and itemize things pretty well, the box has a much better chance of rolling right through customs and coming to our front door.

Thank you for wanting to support and bless our family as we serve here in Berlin!

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