Once Halloween is over, I am in full on Christmas mode. I start looking for all the right gifts, thinking decor, and planning for fun parties and cute Christmas cards. For some people however, Christmas just comes and goes. There are so many opportunities to make Christmas awesome for someone you dont even know! This year at our church, they are doing Operation Christmas Child, with Samaritan's Purse. I did this when I was in high school at my church back home, but our church here has done Angel Tree, so I began to pick kids off of there the past few years. I was SO excited this year to do OCC though, because last Christmas, my best friend Kristi, who works for SP, was handing the shoeboxes out! I dont know what country or which kids will be receiving the shoeboxes we filled, but it would be neat if it just happened to land in Uganda with our friends.
So, I am writing all of this because I had no idea that you could do all of this without your church doing it. Just go online to Operation Christmas Child The drop down menu will have something that says Pack a Shoe Box. There you can print off the labels that go on the box (boy or girl and age). Fill it with some great stuff, and then find the closest drop off point to you. There are a lot of different churches and organizations dropping them off, so just because your church doesnt do it, doesnt mean you cant find a collection place that can send it off for you! Just type in your zip code and it will tell you where.
We picked the 2-4 age group bc I thought I may know what that age likes best. We got things like crayons, balls, pretend doctor sets, recorders, t shirts for each of them, toothbrushes, fun princess stuff for the girl and a doll, and construction stuff for the boy. Justin wanted to inspire musical and educational things =) ha! I got them toys they could play with alone, and toys that were to play with their friends. Just some ideas of what you can fill it with. You can do snacks too, nonperishable of course. I did sour patch kids, rice krispie treats, and goldfish. Some of my own faves!
SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR! ITS SO EASY TO DO! and these kids will LOVE IT! Drop off is November 16-23 so you have three weeks!
2 comments:
YAY Jillo! Thanks for letting people know about OCC! You and Justin are so great! I am excited to get the extra goodies you have for the kiddos at Damali's babies' home and bring them back to Uganda as well!! I am so blessed to have you in my life! I love you!!!
I didn't know you could do it if your church was doing something different! Thanks, Jillo! I think Justin and I will do this as well - our church is adopting kids from a nearby low-income daycare center and then having a big party to give them their gifts, but I didn't feel good about adopting those kids b/c there's a good chance I'll be in the hospital on the day of the party! How sad would it be for our kiddo not to have anybody at the Christmas party! We'd be deadbeat adoptive parents! Ok, enough rambling, I'm just glad that you posted this!
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