Operation Christmas Child is one of the most remarkable ministries of love to underprivileged children in the world! Since the early 1990’s, 124 million shoeboxes of gifts … love gifts from loving people in the name of Jesus … to millions of needy children throughout the world. OCC is overseen by the great ministry of Samaritans Purse led by Franklin Graham, son of Evangelist Billy Graham. Learn more at www.samaritanspurse.org.
Operation Christmas Child is made possible by the thousands of volunteers, churches, and other ministries who are used of God to bring joy and love to children, children about whom Jesus said: “Let the little children come unto me.”
Joan and I have attend some of these exciting gatherings… and are so impressed by the exhilarating joy that fills the room of the volunteers. And other volunteers invite you to “… get in on it!”
Vicki Stamps, OCC’s St. Louis Area Coordinator, invites us to the promotional gathering on Sat morning Sept 19, on a “come and go” basis, at the St. Paul’s Evangelical Church located at 9801 Olive Blvd, St Louis, MO 63141-7903 (across from the Creve Coeur Monsanto campus) (www.stpaulsefree.org). For those reading this later, expect the same pattern in future years … until Jesus returns..
One of the great past times of OCC impacting and humorous brief radio is still available for anytime listening. From the mountains of Appalachia … famed as a depressed region, you can hear … “Appalachia’s Mary Damron loves poor children; voice of Franklin Graham’s Operation Christmas Child” … click on … http://haroldhendrick.com/content/view/198/5/.
To hear a powerful brief radio from one receiving a shoebox in Rwanda titled … …”Alex of Rwanda saw family murdered; in orphanage given OCC shoebox, received Jesus, forgave killer” … click on www.haroldhendrick.com/content/view/469/5/.