I recently received the brochure in the mail for the fundraising campaign for Operation Christmas Child. Oddly enough I had noted this week in my calendar to start getting ready for this very worthwhile cause. Let me share this with you from the Samaritan’s Purse website;
“Operation Christmas Child brings joy and hope to children in desperate situations around the world through gift-filled shoe boxes and the message of God’s unconditional love. It provides an opportunity for people of all ages to be involved in a simple, hands-on project of Samaritan’s Purse that focuses on the true meaning of Christmas – Jesus Christ – God’s greatest gift.
Operation Christmas Child was started in 1990 by Dave Cooke, a Welshman who felt moved to deliver gifts to Romanian orphans after seeing their living circumstances on television. In 1993, Operation Christmas Child grew and was adopted by Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian organization run by Franklin Graham.
To date, Operation Christmas Child has collected and distributed over 86 million shoe box gifts worldwide. Each shoe box gift is filled with hygiene items, school supplies, toys, and candy, is given to children regardless of gender, race, religion, or age. When culturally appropriate, copies of a book entitled The Greatest Gift of All, which has been translated into 130 different languages, are offered to children after the shoe box has already been distributed.”
All it takes is for everyone of us to contribute one shoebox of small gift items so that a child who is less fortunate can have a wonderful Christmas. Ultimately it is not about the contents of the box, but about the love you put into it that counts. If you would like to contribute a shoebox of gifts this Christmas please visit the following website for details
www.samaritanspurse.ca
Or, if you like you can work with my daughter Emily and I as we prepare to create at least two shoe boxes this year.
FT&PD
Suz
I think that the Shoe box idea is a wonderful one. It is nice to help someone else that has nothing, I think that we take that for grantit.
Count me in!!!!
Thank you for sharing !!
Thank you Diana, we appreciate your support and help! I will work out some details with you when we next get together, okay? Thanks for checking out MMM. I am having fun with it!!
We do the shoe box gifts here at school,20 boxes for class…..i love it
I just heard about this a few months ago and I hadn’t of this charity before which surprised me because I’m always trying to find and help different charities. I think this is such a great way to help around the world and it doesn’t cost a lot of money especially with our dollar stores. I’m going to have to find out where I can donate some boxes. Thanks for the information