In 1998, a devastating hurricane brought great upheaval to thousands in Honduras, Central America. 10-year-old Karen Banegas (“baa nee’ gas”) of the family of an Assembly of God pastor and his wife, was among them.
In this radio conversation you will hear Karen relive the joy of her receiving her own Operation Christ Child shoebox of love gifts! In 2014 she meets with the Samaritans Purse OCC volunteers, sharing a first-hand report of the impact of the wonderful work of the OCC volunteers.
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While this great work is ongoing, St. Louis, MO, City and County OCC Director Vicki Stamps announces that Karen Banegas will be the St. Louis area guest of OCC volunteers on Saturday, September 27, 2014. One of her appearance locations is the St. Paul’s Lutheran Church,12345 Manchester Rd., St. Louis, MO 63131, at the northeast edge of the West County Shopping Center near I-270.
To learn more about Samaritans Purse Operation Christmas Child’s work of distribution shoeboxes of gifts to poor children around the world, click on http://www.samaritanspurse.org/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/ … and look around.
Questions about OCC ministry in the St. Louis area? Vicki Stamps welcomes your personal calls at (314) 363-1150.
. A powerful, moving 9-minute video with shoebox recipient Alex of Rwanda – who sought out and forgave the man who murdered members of his family — can be seen by clicking on http://www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/alex-story/
Earlier St. Louis OCC radio titled “Shoebox local leader Vicki Stamps: ‘The next 100,000,000 shoebox gifts to poor children worldwide’” can be accessed by clicking on http://haroldhendrick.com/content/view/556/5/ …