For the past 20 years, Operation Christmas Child has shown that there's power in a simple gift. It is demonstrating God's love in a tangible way to millions of children around the world.
The concept of Operation Christmas Child began on 10 October 1990, when Dave and Jill Cooke of Wrexham, Wales were watching a broadcast on Romanian orphanages. They asked the question: How can we help the real victims, the children, who live in these situations day after day? They knew they could not stop the wars, but they could offer something – the gift of love. Together, they filled a convoy of nine trucks with medical supplies, food, clothing and Christmas gifts for children, and headed into Romania, which had recently been devastated by war. This was the beginning of the world’s largest children’s Christmas program.
In 1993, Franklin Graham, International President of Samaritan’s Purse, adopted Operation Christmas Child. Since then, more than 61 million shoe boxes have been delivered to hurting children in more than 135 countries.
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Get in on the excitement!
Fill a shoebox (or two, or a dozen!) this year!
3 comments:
Great post! I was thinking the other day when I saw my shoe box I need to do a blog post about it. It's that time of year!
It's always so exciting to fill shoeboxes, & now, if you pay the $7transportation costs online, you are issued a label to affix to the box, & can track where your box is sent! So neat!!
P.S. I've changed the video to another one which is better!
Our church participates in OCC and I'm looking forward to packing my shoeboxes! Thank you for sharing about the history, I didn't know how it started. :)
Have a great weekend!
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