2025 Project: Sharing Your Christmas With International "Seafarers Care Boxes"  Project

One of the 2025 "Seafarer Care Boxes"
 
 
For the sixth year, Kingwood Rotary is partnering with the First Presbyterian Church Kingwood thanks to Former Texas State Representative Joe Crabb and his awesome wife, Nancy.   Special thanks to Kingwood Rotarian Richard Briggs for suggesting this project to our club.
 
Imagine being a international seafarer on a ocean vessel that arrives at the Port of Houston during Christmas.  You're far from home in a country where you don't know anyone and maybe you can't disembark from the vessel. 
 
To help them, the First Presbyterian Church members purchase and collect personal care items and create 400 care packages for these seafarers and then deliver them to the Houston International Seafarers' Center which then delivers these care packages when the vessels arrive here and Houston for distribution to the crew.
2024 Photo above shows Former Texas State Representative Joe Crabb and his remarkable wife, Nancy, with Kingwood Rotarian Rhonda Whitesell. One person or one little Rotary club can make the world a better place to live.
Nancy and Joe are dedicated to collecting as many care boxes as possible, and Kingwood Rotary is excited to donate personal care items for the seafarers.  We thank Nancy and Joe for their dedication to their project that helps make the holidays special for seafarers from countries around the globe when their vessel arrives in Houston.  
 
Below is a thank you note from another recipient which expressed his appreciation for this project:
"Hello, my name is Denis, I am from Russia, I am a sailor.  Vessel Muhut.  We came to the port of Houston and received a gift and Merry Christmas from you.  I was very pleased to receive your gift and congratulations.  For a Russian person, it is very surprising that people do not forget about others, even those they do not know.  I wanted to express my heartfelt thanks to you.  For me, a gift is not as important as attention, and especially in another country.  I hope someday our countries will become friends and I will be able to visit your amazing country with my family. Thanks again to your entire community.  Merry Christmas!"