Time flies! We just finished celebrating Thanksgiving in Canada with some turkeys. Thanksgiving day is a day of Giving Thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year.
The next statutory holiday is Christmas!
Would you like to participate in Operation Christmas Child project? it is a hands-on project that allows individuals and groups in Canada to help bring joy and hope to children in desperate situations around the world,through gift-filled shoeboxes. It is one way to remind children suffering through war, poverty, famine, disease and disaster that they are loved and not forgotten.
It is simple and fun to pack a shoebox filled with toys, hygiene items, school supplies and so on for hurting children in desperate situations.
My goal for 2014 is to have my friends, family and co-workers participate again and pack 300 shoeboxes.
Click ‘here‘ to start packing a shoebox. You may use an empty shoebox or a plastic box of a shoebox size to pack and drop off at one of the drop-off location that is close to you. Click ‘here‘ to find a Collection Centre.
please visit PackaBox.ca to fill a shoebox with gifts online, including a personalized card and photo.
Please help us spread the word so that there will be more shoeboxes distributed to hurting children around the world during 2014 Christmas!
National Collection Week is November 17 to 23, 2014. Please call our Operation Christmas Child team to determine the options available to you: 1-800-303-1269.
Below is where the Canadian Shoebox will be distributed in year 2014:
History: Operation Christmas Child was started in 1990. In 1993, Operation Christmas Child grew and was adopted by Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian organization run by Franklin Graham. To date, Operation Christmas Child has collected and distributed over 100 million shoebox gifts worldwide. In 2013, Canadians donated more than 664,000 Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes for hurting children around the world.
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