On December 9, 2009, High Impact Teens was invited to be a sponsor of the Snowball Express! The Snowball Express provides support to our families of fallen military heroes and it was a real honor to participate in this event at the Indianapolis airport.

Imagine being the child who lost a parent while protecting our country’s freedom in the military. It sure would be encouraging to have people step up and support you and your family especially at Christmas time.

American Airlines here in Indianapolis asked me to partner with them through High Impact Teens in this event.

I had the opportunity to meet and offer support to some of the families. One mom was asking me about High Impact Teens and what this ministry does for families with teens. After talking for a few minutes she asked how she might get a High Impact Teen devotional journal for her teenager. For some reason I put one journal in a small box of other materials I brought to the event. It was obvious to me that God had in mind to give this journal to the one person that needed it.

Since 2001 there are over 8000 children who have lost a parent serving in our military and the average age of these children is 9 years old.  If you want to know more about the event I have included a couple links to the Kansas City News story and ABC News. Our plane landed in Kansas City and then went on to Dallas. Charlie Gibson named the Snowball Express volunteers his choice for “Persons of the Week” on Friday evening, December14.

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9316579

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATqylzwH9DE

I’d like to thank my friends who supported High Impact Teens in this event last week. They are Jeff Leffew of Servant HR, Sandy Van Vlymen of Widow’s Jar Ministries, Andy Chapman of Indianapolis Signworks, Joshua Goodling of Inspirit News, Brenda Appleton of Appleton Services, Inc., Roger and Dolly Norman and Dave and Bev Achenbach.

Ken Turner
High Impact Teens