Many of you already know that we have been participating with Operation Christmas Child for many years now.
If you’re not familiar with them - PLEASE do check them out! http://samaritanspurse.org/OCC.asp?MPGID=1
We have been volunteering with them for years. Many of you on our Newsletter list may remember that we staffed a collection center a couple of years ago. It was so exciting!
What is it all about?
Packing simple shoe boxes with gifts for children who have absolutely NOTHING in this world.
Why? It tells them somebody loves them and cares for them. It gives them hope. Oh the stories we could tell that we have heard as a result of this program!
This is a decidedly Christian organization with no apologizes. It is a beautiful, well-run organization filled with wonderful people - most of whom are volunteers. Everybody we’ve been in contact with through this organization (sorry - bad grammar) has been a joy and a blessing.
We will again be having our annual shoe box packing tea here. Last year our little group packed and shipped 158 shoe boxes. Many others around us have ‘caught the bug’ and have joined in - including our local bank branches’ employees, Scout troops, elementary schools, Red Hat Societies, the Society of Women Engineers at a local university, and more!
We’re hoping that you check them out too. Packing a shoe box - or several - is SO easy, so FUN, and has the potential to make such a HUGE difference in today’s world. Yes, a simple shoe box filled with trinkets carefully selected and packed with love can change the world for a child - for a family, in fact.
We hope that you read about it. If that link doesn’t work, go to the ‘parent organziation’s’ site at www.SamaritansPurse.org. There’s a lot there to see.
Collection centers are open the 2nd week in November all across the USA, Canada, England, Australia and more (date may be different over seas - you can check on line). What’s that? You can drop off your shoe box and they’ll get it to its destination.
It’s that easy to make a difference.
