This morning was our 2nd Annual Operation Christmas Child party. During the Sunday School everyone brings boxes and gifts for the boxes and we fill as many as we can. We had so much stuff on the two tables that it was like being at a store while choosing items to go in your boxes. Some ladies even made hats to put in the shoeboxes.
Will made a tower of the extra pencils
If you have never seen a promo video for OCC you should check them out at
www.samaritanspurse.org/OCC. Over 7 million boxes are sent out to children around the world who may never get a gift for Christmas because they have never heard of the One who we celebrate at Christmas. With OCC they not only get a box full of fun gifts but they hear the message of the Gospel in their own language. And that is the
best gift they could ever receive.
Our 35 boxes are only a drop in a very large bucket but they represent 35 kids who will get to hear of God's incredible love and His gift of grace. What a privilege that we get to be a part of something that is so much bigger than we could ever accomplish on our own! We pray that God would use each gift to accomplish His purpose in the lives of those who receive them.
How, then, can they call on the One they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!" Romans 10:14-15
1 comment:
We participate in "Operation Christmas Child" each year, too. We all love filling the shoe boxes with age appropriate gifts for children similar ages to mine. How exciting to think this fantastic tradition is done around the world.
Fun catching up and reading about your medieval feast. I'm glad yours was only 3 courses long and not like the original ones up to 15 courses! You would all have had to work hard.
Thanks for the comments on my posts,
Paula
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