Saturday, October 4, 2008
It’s Not Cracker Jacks—But There’s A Prize In Every Box!
It's that time again... pull out an empty shoe box, and fill it up for a needy child as part of the Operation Christmas Child program. If you aren’t familiar with Operation Christmas Child, or are unsure if you would like to participate, please consider this: Some 8 million suffering children in more than 90 countries on six continents will receive personal, gift-filled shoe boxes through this kids-helping-kids project. For many of these children, the shoe box gift will be the first gift they have ever received. Operation Christmas Child began in the United States in 1993 with 28,000 shoe box gifts. Since that time, the kids-helping-kids project has collected more than 61 million shoe box gifts and hand-delivered them to needy children in some 130 countries. Find out more here: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/occ/
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We do this every year at our Church. It's so great to see all those wrapped boxes in front of the Church ready to be mailed. Every year when we watch the video I cry and I think how that's ALL they get and then I think of all my kids are getting for Christmas and I hope the video makes them realize how lucky/blessed they are.
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