Operation Christmas Child

Each year, our church works together to put boxes of Christmas presents together to send to Russia through Operation Christmas Child, a program of Samaritan's Purse. We take the boys shopping for gifts for a boy their age, and they really enjoy the process of packing and praying for boys who need to know Jesus!

Then our church works collectively to put together boxes...last year we did 42 boxes, and this year we managed 71! We have a good connection with the manager at a hardware store in Seward to get the plastic shoe boxes for really cheap, :) and a family in our church shops for sales all year....you know, like pairs of mittens for 97 cents and boxes of crayons for 39 cents, and donations from dentists for toothbrushes! We raise most of the funds for doing the shoeboxes with a few rummage sales each year. If one child comes to know Christ through the Bible tract in his box, then it's worth all of it!