Operation Christmas Child

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An Inside Look In An Operation Christmas Child Shoebox

Collection Week will be here faster than you know! Why not always have an Operation Christmas Child shoebox to fill so you’re ready when collection week rolls up. No more last minute rushing and paying full price for everything because collection week snuck up on you. Collection Week is November

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Have You Ever Wondered What Happens To Your OCC Box?

National OCC Collection Week 2021 runs from Nov. 15 – 22nd. Halloween is over. Christmas is coming –er, Thanksgiving is coming, and that means this must be OCC Collection Week! You filled your shoebox. You brought it your church. Now what? Once collected, all the churches are bring their van loads

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The Rest of the Story {After the Shoebox}

The Rest of the Story {After the Shoebox}

Today’s post is by Diane Rice, the Inland Northwest Area Coordinator for the Operation Christmas Child Collection Center. It is comprised of notes she took at the Area Coordinator’s Conference in Boone, NC last March and she felt led to share them with us. A small shoebox can have a

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Journey of a Shoebox: Collection Center to Processing

Operation Christmas Child is an organization working to reach kids for Christ with a simple gift of a shoebox. I had a chance to sit down and chat with Diane Rice, the local Network Collection Coordinator for Operation Christmas Child here. I wrote about what happens to your shoebox after you

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Fall Fun

Fall is one of our favorite times of year. Leaves changing color and falling off the trees.  Frost on the grass. Jack-o-lantern molding on the front porch.  It must be fall again! It brings with it a reason to make hot cocoa and wear a jacket, and it also opens

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