While most Americans are thinking about Thanksgiving, my last few weeks have been consumed by plans for Christmas... Operation Christmas Child, that is! From driving between all three campuses to check on their progress to wrapping shoeboxes by the light of Christmas movies to filling my roommate's van with donated items, I have been so thrilled to be a part of the school-wide OCC project. In past years, the elementary school has completed this project on their own, but this year it became a whole-school endeavor. The middle school students in my DIY elective set the goal of 100 boxes to pack this year. I knew we'd need lots of people to get involved with a goal that big!
On Wednesday night, my roommate and I got our small group girls to help us wrap shoeboxes for the packing party!
It was really neat to see how different members of the community participated in different ways. Some donated items or packed whole boxes, while others came to our packing party or donated money for the transportation costs of the boxes. All of us were united around the same purpose -- that children around the world might know the greatest Gift of all, Jesus!
Yesterday afternoon was the first-ever BFA packing party! We used a conference room for the packing stations and the student center (lounge area) for the checking station, collecting location, and prayer area. Everyone who packed a box was encouraged to pray for the recipient of that box, as well as the many others who will get these shoeboxes in the next few months.
Welcome station and the packing room
All ages were represented at the packing party!
Middle school students, eager to pack boxes!
Making sure the box is complete!
Next stop: checking station!
Blown away by the way God works! Together we packed 112 shoeboxes!
The volunteers even helped us pack the boxes into the van!
Thanks to everyone who participated in Operation Christmas Child 2012!
(These are just a few of our helpers!)
"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for the least of these brothers of mine, you did for Me.'" Matthew 25:40
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