Operation Christmas Child asking for help
This Christmas season individuals, groups and organizations around the area are thinking about tiffany jewellery others as they get ready to ship thousands of shoe boxes filled with gifts all over the world.
Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child, a project of international Christian relief and evangelism organization Samaritan’s Purse, headed by Franklin Graham, has delivered more than 69 million gift-filled shoe boxes to needy children in some 130 countries.
World Christian Outreach Ministries in Connellsville has participated in Operation Christmas Child for about nine years and is now a collection site for individuals in the community who want to be involved and put together a shoe box.
Ruth Smith, site coordinator at World Christian Outreach Ministries, said Nov. 16 to Nov. tiffany earrings 23 is National Collection Week. She hopes to collect 2,000 packages.
“We get a lot of support from the community and if we hit that number fantastic but if we don’t it’s still fantastic that we collected the amount that we did,” she said.
Smith said Operation Christmas Child is a unique opportunity to do something as simple as packing a shoe box that will have a lasting impact on a child a world away.
“They bring the filled shoe boxes to us and we count them and put them in larger containers and take them to the Greensburg collection center,” Smith said. “From there they’re put on a truck and taken to Boone, N.C.”
Denise Pritts with the Indian Head Church of God said this is the second year that the church has collected items year round to put into the boxes.
“This past year the congregation has been really helpful in getting boxes together,” she said. “We thought maybe next year we would try something a little different and highlight one item each month for people to bring — maybe toothbrushes and toothpaste one month, girls clothes another and hygiene items another.”
The church will take the boxes they’ve collected and drop them off at the Clinton Church of God tiffany key rings drop-off site during collection week.
Smith said packing a box is easy.
First is the box itself. She suggests individuals use plastic shoe storage boxes, but if regular shoe boxes are used, the lids and the boxes need to be gift wrapped separately.
Items that can be packed include wash cloths, hand towels, bars of unscented soap that must be in its original wrapper as well as in a plastic bag, tooth brushes and toothpaste, small containers of talcum powders, school supplies such as notepads, erasers and glue sticks, small coloring books, colors, markers, flip flops, T-shirts and ball caps, balls, jump rope, harmonica, small stuffed animals and several other items.
For every box that’s put together, it’s asked that $7 be included to pay for shipping of the package. Individuals are also welcome to put in a letter and a picture of themselves or their family.
World Christian Outreach Ministries is located at 503 W. Georgia Ave. in Connellsville. Collection times tiffany necklaces will be Monday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Nov. 21, from 10 a.m. to noon and Nov. 22 from 1 to 4 p.m.
Clinton Church of God is located at 405 Buchanan Road in Normalville. Collection times there will be on Monday and Nov. 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Nov. 22 from noon to 2 p.m.
Operation Christmas Child uses tracking technology that allows donors to follow a box to the destination country where it will be hand-delivered to a child in need. To register shoe box gifts and find out what country they are delivered to, use the EZ Give donation form found at www.samaritanspurse.org.
For more information visit the Samaritan’s Purse website or call 410-442-3701.
Rachel R. Basinger can be reached at rbasinger@tribweb.com silver bangles or 724-626-3536.
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