Collection Week 2014 runs from Nov. 14-21st. Halloween is over. Christmas is coming –er, Thanksgiving is coming, and that means this must be Collection Week! If you haven’t turned your shoebox in to your local church, now is the time to do it, because this week all the churches are bringing their vanloads of shoeboxes in […]
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 BIG impact. What goes into […]
The Most Important Task in the Journey of a Shoebox- Prayer
We shop with joy, filling the shoe box with things we think the child will need. A toothbrush and toothpaste, a pair of socks, pencils and sharpener, crayons and a coloring book, stickers and glue sticks. We pack it in neatly, as much as the little box will hold, add the label, and drop it […]
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 drop it off at your local […]
Operation Christmas Child: What Happens When You Drop Off a Shoebox?
Operation Christmas Child has been a ministry dear to our hearts for many years now. The first time we ever joined in the filling of OCC shoeboxes was about 10 years ago. I decided to get my 3rd grade Missionette class at church involved. We’ll just pack a couple of shoeboxes, I thought. Each girl can […]