FORT WORTH, TX:  As they prepare for this weekend’s Red River Athletic Conference Tournament, the Texas Wesleyan University women’s volleyball team is participating in Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child.  The Lady Rams have been part of the program, which brings supplies and gifts to children living in crisis situations in impoverished countries all over the world, for several years now.
 
This week, each Lady Ram will fill a shoebox, with school supplies, clothes, socks, shoes, toys, and other desperately needed small items.  In addition, each player fills out a pen-pal information sheet so the recipients will know who sent their gifts and can correspond if they would like.
 
“Operation Christmas Child is a wonderful Christian outreach program,” commented head coach Christy Clawson.  “I had participated in the program through my church and thought it would relate well to our players and show them how so many of the things we take for granted are so important to others.  We get stuck in our own struggles and own problems, and this really puts it in perspective.  One of our team rules is ‘make the people around you better,’ and I think this program articulates that idea.”
 
National collection week for Operation Christmas Child is November 14-21.  To learn more or to get involved please visit the OCC website by clicking here.
 
Texas Wesleyan (15-16) will be the fourth seed in the RRAC Tournament, which is being hosted by UT-Brownsville this Friday and Saturday.  They will play fifth seeded Southwestern Assemblies of God University (18-12) at 1:00 p.m.  TWU and SAGU posted identical 5-4 conference records this season.  The Rams took the only meeting between the two teams 3-1 on September 20, in Fort Worth.