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jorjean
August 3rd, 2007, 05:02 PM
Does anyone on this board support Samaritans Purse in this endeavor? I so love OCC. It is a chance to spread the Gospel to children all around the world. You put together a shoe box with things you might put in a Christmas's stocking. You drop it off at a collection center and it is shipped to a child who would have no other Christmas at all.
Here is the web sight
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/OCC.asp

There is information about where the drop off sights are, and all about Operation Christmas Child.:pray
John 3:16
August 5th, 2007, 06:58 PM
Our church does this every year.
tenn4ever
August 5th, 2007, 07:02 PM
Yes, we support Samaritan's Purse. I think it's one of the best to support. We did the Christmas boxes for several years but the church we go to now (when we moved a couple years ago) doesn't handle that. I don't think it's because they don't support that endeavor. They just didn't have it last year. I hope they do this year.
watching4him
August 16th, 2007, 06:36 PM
My two girlss do this every Christmas they shop for a girl that is in same age group that they are in. They love to do this, it's also a great learning tool for them to understand that not every child has a family that can afford to give them a gift at Christmas.
markofthebest
August 16th, 2007, 07:08 PM
We love Samaritan's Purse too! And our current church does OCC every Christmas.
AllforHim
August 16th, 2007, 07:10 PM
:nod I love this. I too have had my daughter do it since she was a toddler!! We collect things for it throughout the year, whenever we spot something on sale, we buy it and keep it for the shoe boxes :yay

The first year I did it, my pastor told the story of some boxes that went to South America. This little girl was given a box and she was overwhelmed with joy.She looked in the box with a look of awe on her face :shocked Then after a while she picked out a pencil, closed the box and handed it back. With a huge smile she said thank you. She thought she was meant to pick something and that was it!! When she realised the whole box was for her, she cried :)

What a blessing it is to my family! :yeah :wave
tenn4ever
August 16th, 2007, 10:27 PM
The Gospel message is put in every box in the language of the child receiving it.
hilhill
August 16th, 2007, 11:34 PM
I haven't done this yet, but we are definitely doing OCC this year!!
dlocal
August 20th, 2007, 06:25 PM
Operation Christmas Child has been a blessing to many all over the world. A great evangelism program.
lisa
August 25th, 2007, 07:28 PM
Our church does something like this too, if not this very project. There's so many good ones. I think World Vision has a nice one, too.