This month, more than 4,000 locations around the country, including Otterbein United Methodist Church in Russell, will serve as collection sites for Operation Christmas Child. Also recommended are school supplies such as pens, pencils, sharpeners, crayons or markers, stamp-and-ink pad sets, writing pads or paper, solar calculators, coloring and picture books.
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National Collection Week for Operation Christmas Child (a project of Samaritan’s Purse) runs from November 16 to 22 and designated collection centers across Canada are ready to receive shoeboxes packed with love.
The Regus Centre is a local drop off point for the 2015 appeal operated by global relief charity Samaritan’s Purse. Donors are asked to label their boxes for either boys or girls falling into three age groups: 2 to 4, 5 to 9 and 10 to 14.
Chris Price, volunteer and relay center coordinator for Operation Christmas Child, juggles a stack of boxes that were dropped off Sunday at LifeSpring Covenant Church in Loveland. Cherry obtained the 500 boxes by making periodic trips to a local shoe store, and the congregation and family filled the boxes throughout the year.
These were the first 448 from Foundations Church of many more boxes they will collect this week. Marlee and her father spent the previous year making baked goods to raise money to buy items to put in shoeboxes and pay for postage.
Starting Monday, people can begin bringing their shoe boxes filled with gifts to Calvary Community Church in Johnson City on Harry L. Drive.
We also take them to the Dollar Store and allow them a small budget to buy items to stuff in the show boxes that go to children in Africa, South America, Asia and Eastern Europe.
For more information about how to participate in Operation Christmas Child call (602) 510-0871.
If you want to brighten up a child’s Christmas this year, you have until next week to fill a shoebox with goodies for sending to developing and war torn countries.
114 shoeboxes filled with gifts have been collected for the Samaritan’s Purse appeal, organised by Mary Leathers and schoolteacher Sam Grossett.
Operation Christmas Child hopes to send 11 million gifts to children this year and the Go Store in Conway is helping make that happen.
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Shipping Costs: Please include $7 to cover the cost of shipping your OCC shoebox.
