Now that it's November, I can start thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas! I love this time of year. And one of my favorite holiday traditions is Operation Christmas Child. I've been putting together these shoe boxes since I was just a kid. And now it's something I do with my own kids. They take it seriously and put a lot of thought into their boxes. It's such a fun way to not just bless another child, but to teach our own kids the importance of giving. There's something almost magical about putting your heart into a box of presents for a child you don't even know. Love and giving is the very heart of our Christian faith. Because our God is LOVE and He GAVE up His one and only Son for us. So I just wanted to send out a reminder to start shopping for your shoe boxes. They dont have to be extravagant. Just something that will remind a child that God loves them. You never know what small act of kindness will do to impact someone else's life and the lives around them. National collection week is November 18-25. Happy giving!
Here is the link to Samaritan's Purse where you can learn more...
Operation Christmas Child
Read a woman's testimony who received a shoe box when she was just a girl...
Oxana's story
More ways to help...
Voice of Martryres
World Vision
Compassion International
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
1 John 4:9-16
And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
Hebrews 13:16
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