Monday, November 23, 2009

Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes - 2009

Operation Christmas Child is a ministry of the relief organization, Samaritan's Purse. It involves shopping for and packing a shoebox full of goodies that will be sent to a needy child somewhere in the world. I encourage you to visit their website and learn more about this incredible ministry ~ it is always amazing to us to see how the boxes are transported to remote locations. And with what joy they are always received!

Our children love doing this each year, and we look for items all year long that would be appropriate to send. We packed just two boxes this year, one for a girl and one for a boy. It seemed like such a paltry offering compared to the need, but for the two children who will receive these boxes it could be life changing!




This year Samaritan's Purse has added tracking numbers, so we can look online and see where our boxes end up! We are very excited to know what country (and perhaps what city) "our" children are in.
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2 comments:

  1. votemomNovember 23, 2009 at 5:45 PM

    the tracking option is soooo cool! talk about helping make the world a little smaller!

    of course i'm secretly hoping at least one of our boxes goes to russia!

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  2. lazy susieNovember 24, 2009 at 5:42 AM

    Tracking is an awesome idea! Let us know where your boxes go.

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