At home my oldest and I filled our boxes with toys, candy, toothpaste, stickers, and all sorts of fun items. Once we got to the collection site the kids had even more fun. Many other home school families were there from our support group and all the kids sat down while the head of the collection site explained how each child would be helping to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world by filling shoe boxes.
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| We started with the two boxes we already had at home |
It was wonderful. The kids both chose even more shoe boxes to fill and we went through all of the items at the site and chose fun items for each box. All the while the kids enjoyed cookies, drinks, and hanging out with other families. They colored "all about me" pages to include in the shoe boxes and even made a little blanket to put in the boxes. Finally we prayed over our boxes and the children that would receive them.
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| Kids Writing Their "all about me" pages to include in their boxes |
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| They wanted to make even more boxes! |
It was really fantastic! We are going to make this our official holiday season kick-off each year. There will never be a question in the kids minds who this holiday is really about and how we all need to share the love of Christ throughout the world.
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| At the collection site the walls were filled with boxes full of shoe boxes headed off to other countries
If you would like to learn more about Operation Christmas Child visit Samaritan's Purse at http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/occ/
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