Operation Christmas Child Clarke-Washington EMC’s employees and Peniel Baptist Church recently donated shoe boxes filled with toys, school supplies, hygiene items, hard candy, sunglasses, hair clips, flashlights and toys to children all over the world. Operation Christmas Child (OCC) - a kids-helping-kids project of Samaritan’s Purse uses simple gift-filled shoe boxes to let underprivileged children know that they are loved and not forgotten. Generous kids, families, businesses and organizations in all 50 states and 12 additional countries filled more than 8 million shoe boxes with school supplies, toys, necessity items, family photos and notes of encouragement for the needy children. Operation Christmas Child began in the United States in 1993 with 28,000 shoe box gifts. Since then, the kids-helping-kids project
Peniel Baptist Church Members visit the OCC Distribution Center in Atlanta to prepare the boxes for shipment overseas.
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of Samaritan’s Purse has collected and handdelivered more than 80 million shoe box gifts to needy children in more than 130 countries. Although OCC is an international project, it has tremendous support from churches, businesses and non-profit organizations throughout the CWEMC service area. Peniel Baptist Church, a CWEMC member located in the McVay Community, is one of the largest local supporters of the project collecting over 600 boxes this year.
Clarke-Washington EMC employees preparing giftfilled shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child.