Captains from Lima's Salvation Army will be out collecting for the Red Kettle Campaign in early December.
Captains Phillip and Charity Bender will be outside the Walmarts on both of Lima's east and west sides on December 9th as part of the national challenge. The challenge is being put on by the Salvation Army's national commander and commissioner, where the top officials of all chapters will be outside ringing the bell in hopes of gathering donations for their mission.
"All the proceeds and all the money still stay here in Lima no matter what, they're gonna match it. So whatever my wife and I make in our bucket Saturday, the national commander will match it, and also we just found out our divisional commander, they will be putting monies toward this as well, to the bucket as well! It'll be like 1,000 dollars for each bucket so they will be sending into that, which makes it more interesting," said Philip Bender, captain of the Lima Salvation Army.
Philip will be stationed at the Harding Highway Walmart and Charity will be located at the Allentown Walmart.
