Celebrate with your church or group

Thank you for helping Operation Christmas Child collect 662,312 shoe boxes for hurting children this year!

In addition to distributing shoe box gifts with the help of our partners, over the last year we were able to:

  • Collect 662,312 shoe box gifts to share the Good News of Jesus with children, their families, and their communities
  • Enroll 133,079 children in discipleship classes and were blessed to celebrate the graduation of 80,810 young students who had completed the discipleship classes.
  • Meet key needs of children and their families in a number of communities with projects that provided access to clean water, food/nutritional support, and medical assistance.

 

Use these resources to share this exciting new with your church or group:

Thank You PowerPoint Slide #1

Thank You PowerPoint Slide #2

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Thank You Video (downloadable)

Impact Story Videos 

 

Ivory Coast

The Operation Christmas Child team in the Ivory Coast is praising the Lord for a little boy who has an incredible gift for drawing. In his shoe box gift, he received - yes - materials designed to help him continue drawing. This little boy enrolled in The Greatest Journey and has recently graduated.

Guatemala

In the region of Cuya, Tejutla, Guatemala, a single mother was crying as she thanked the Operation Christmas Child team for the gifts they brought to their community, especially the gift for her daughter.

In her daughter's shoe box was a pair of shoes which went perfectly with her school uniform. The mother had not known how she was going to afford to buy the shoes before the school year started, as she couldn't find enough work to pay for the shoes.  She and her daughter gave thanks to God and the Operation Christmas Child team for bringing them the gifts.

Haiti

In Cite-Soleil, a desperately poor and violent area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a church surprised nearby children by inviting them to an event, then distributing Operation Christmas Child shoe box gifts. The children were so happy and grateful to receive these gifts that when the church invited them to participate in The Greatest Journey discipleship program, so many signed up that the classes had to be held elsewhere.

"We must meet in a school that can receive 265 children," said the church's children's coordinator, Samedy Maria Valna. 

Church representatives said they have eight classrooms where instructors can teach The Greatest Journey.  Herard Desilien, the Sunday school superintendent, said he was happy to see so many people come to the church through Operation Christmas Child.

 

Ways you can help

Pray

Pray that each child who receives an Operation Christmas Child shoe box will know how much God loves them.

Give

Help Samaritan’s Purse go beyond the shoe box and expand assistance to children, their families, and their communities. Donate Here

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