I'm really excited to involve my kiddos Operation Christmas Child this year. I had wanted to last year as well, but I didn't get my act together in time and totally missed the drop off.
All week we've been reading the SP newsletter about the program and stories of children who received shoeboxes whose lives are changed by a few simple gifts. We've also been praying for the little girl and little boy who will receive our shoeboxes. We were inspired to pray for God to help us to know what each child would need as we read about a boy named Kanuti in Africa who took his school supplies to school in a torn plastic bag. When he opened his box, he found a backpack! As well, we read about Rahma, also an African boy, whose clothes were tattered and too small. In his shoebox, he had been given a pair of jeans that fit him perfectly! Kanuti and Rahma are now believers, and no doubt receiving their shoeboxes had an impact on their receiving faith.
So today we took a trip as a family to Target to get all sorts of goodies. N and T-Max were super excited about picking out gifts! And I'm even more excited that SP now has a system where if you make your donation online to cover the shipping, they can track which country your box goes to. How cool is that?
Anyways, I don't even really know who's reading this out there, but if you would consider making a shoebox donation to a child in need somewhere in the world, that would be awesome. Here's a video that tells you more about OCC.
By the way, collection week is Nov. 15-22, and if you live near me, there's a drop off at:
Redland Baptist Church
6922 Muncaster Mill Road
Rockville, MD 20855
our church is doing that so we're going to participate as well. it's great to know about organizations like this. also a great lesson for our kids. maybe next year we can do it as the yi family, just like the bang family! =)
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