The other day I was reading one of my favorite blogs and Linny talked about filling a shoe box for orphans around the world, and how when her husband & daughter were on a mission trip they went to a rural orphanage in Uganda and when the kids saw them arrive some ran and got their boxes that were given to them through Samaritan's Purse.
I thought this was so neat and always want to do things like this, but usually don't know where to drop the things off, or the drop offs are usually 45 + miles away.....I went to the link given for Samaritan's Purse and they had a "find a drop off location" button, so I put in our zip code, and found that there is a drop off right in our small home town. I told the boys about this project, and Noah said 'oh yeah, is it the picture of the box with wings on it? I saw the sign at the church that we drive by everyday'. Yippee Jesus!!!
So I went and bought a bunch of goodies, and we filled the boxes, and mom dropped them off for me this morning. The boys wrote notes to the boys & girl who will receive our boxes and put a picture of us in there and told them we would be praying for them - they were excited when I told them that they may even write back.
So we are praying for two little boys and one little girl and hoping to brighten their lives through Operation Christmas Child.
The deadline for the drop off is Monday Nov 22nd, but if you are interested you can go to http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/Pack_A_Shoe_Box/
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