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Semi coming Monday to load and haul shoeoboxes
Community Alliance Church Pastor Tim Zerger checks inventory Wednesday of boxes received from donors including churches, community leaders and families. Zerger said he hopes to exceed last years numbers, 435 boxes. "There's something special about Christmas," he said, adding that it makes people want to give even more. The boxes will go to Third World countries. Other charities like Angel Tree and the Jaycees' Community Christmas Box and Koats for Kids will go to local children. People who want to donate boxes can include items such as toys, hygiene items, school supplies, a prayer and a $7 donation for shipping costs. For more ideas, people can visit samaritanspurse.org/occ. Donations can be dropped off at Community Alliance Church.
Havreites and others have until Monday around noon to donate toys, school supplies, hygiene items and notes of encouragement to be packed into shoeboxes that will then be wrapped and delivered around the world to children living in extreme poverty or areas affected by war, disease and natural disaster.
The donations can be dropped off at Community Alliance Church between 10 a.m. and noon and 6 and 8 p.m. Volunteers will be packing and wrapping the boxes Sunday from 6 to 7 p.m. at the church. Sometime after noon Monday, the boxes will be loaded onto a large truck and start the first leg of their delivery trip.
In the program, after being dropped off at local collection sites, the boxes will travel around the glob, by any means necessary - boat, plane, train and even elephant - until they reach the hands of children in need. These gifts go to children in some of the hardest-to-reach countries.
As of 2015, since 1993, the project has delivered shoebox gifts to more than 124 million children in more than 150 countries and territories.
Operation Christmas Child is a project of the international Christian relief and evangelism organization Samaritan's Purse.
With a computer or mobile device, people can pack a personalized Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift on the Samaritan's Purse website. They can go online to select toys and gift items, write a note of encouragement and "pack" them in a shoebox.
Participants can follow their box online to discover where in the world their gift is being delivered by using the donation form found online at http://www.samaritanspurse.org/.
Donations will be accepted at Community Alliance Church, 925 8th St. For more information about the shoe box donations, call 945-1343.
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