Operation Christmas Child is a ministry of Samaritan's Purse. OCC sends hundreds of thousands of Christmas Presents to needy children in other countries. People across America put gifts of all kinds (school supplies, candy, toys, etc.) into shoe boxes and designate the gift for a boy of girl of a certain age group. All the boxes go to one of six processing centers in the US before being shipped. In the processing center volunteers do several things:
1. Take out the money which is donated to Samaritan's Purse for transporting the boxes to foreign countries.2. Inspect the boxes for inappropriate items, like war toys, snakes, chocolate, food, breakable items, liquid items, and used items. And all of these inappropriate items have to be removed.
3. Replace those items with other donated items: toys, toothbrushes, toothpaste, candy, etc.
4. Tape the shoe box shut.
5. Pack at least 14 shoe boxes into cardboard boxes for transporting.
Today my Daddy, Mother, me and three friends from Cheyenne went to volunteer for 4 hours at the processing center in Denver. It was so much fun to work with them!
Hard at work with a lot of other people there.
1 comment:
Looks like a lot of work but also fun!
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