This is a follow-up to the meeting last week when Carolyn and Andrea Nichwitz explained the Operation Christmas Child program.

All of the information below is from the Samaritan’s Purse website (www.samaritanspurse.org/OCC_PackAShoeBox.asp?OCCPath=1).

We hope that all the circles will participate.

Thank you!

Debbie Stewart

435-0777

 

A reminder of what Operation Christmas Child is:

Operation Christmas Child is a shoe box ministry that spreads holiday cheer to children worldwide.  This program helps millions of children in desperate situations all around the world!

How You Can Help

  1. Collect empty shoe boxes.
  2. Decide on an age category for your recipients: 2-4, 5-9, and/or 10-14.  I’m assuming the princesses would pick girls.
  3. Have the girls buy small gifts to fill the shoe boxes.  Some gift ideas for girls include small dolls, stuffed animals, picture books, crayons, coloring books, jump rope, hard candy, t-shirts, socks, hairbrush, etc.  More ideas are listed on the website.
  4. Collect small monetary donations because $7 is requested per shoe box to help defer shipping costs.  Checks should be made payable to “Samaritan’s Purse” and should be placed in each box.
  5. Wrap the shoe box (lid separate from the base).  Then put a rubber band around the box.
  6. Label the shoe box (downloadable from the website).
  7. Contact Debbie Stewart (435-0777) to arrange a pick-up date and time.

Completed boxes are due by October 31st.

Last year, Samaritan’s Purse shipped over 7.6 million shoe boxes!