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| Tuesday, 10 November 2009 08:00 | |||
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Local church organizations and individuals are busy preparing shoeboxes filled with gifts for this year’s Operation Christmas Child collection. National collection week begins Nov. 16 at the church offices of Lighthouse Presbyterian Church, 1101 Industrial Drive, and runs through Nov. 23. This is the seventh year to have a relay center in Paola. Operation Christmas Child, a project of international Christian relief and evangelism organization Samaritan’s Purse, headed by Franklin Graham, is the world’s largest Christmas project. Kids, families, schools, churches and community groups participate by filling shoe boxes with school supplies, toys, necessity items, candy and a letter of encouragement. The shoe boxes are then hand-delivered to hurting children around the world using whatever means necessary—sea containers, trucks, trains, airplanes, helicopters, boats, camels, even dog sleds, according to a news release. “Our small effort right now can impact a child’s life forever,” said Delores Haines, Operation Christmas Child drop-off site coordinator. Operation Christmas Child is underway right now, and Paola families hope to collect 1,400 shoe box gifts for children suffering from poverty, war, disease, famine and natural disaster. In 1993, Samaritan’s Purse kicked-off Operation Christmas Child in the United States with just 28,000 shoe box gifts. Since then, the project has collected more than 68 million shoe box gifts and hand-delivered them to needy children in more than 130 countries. Videos and stories of Operation Christmas Child may be viewed online at www.operationchristmaschild.com. Labels. brochures and complete packing instructions also may be downloaded there. The local relay center collected 1,292 boxes last year. The major drop-off dates and times are: Nov. 16 and 17, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 18 and 19, 1 to 4 p.m. Nov. 20, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 21, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 22, 1 to 4 p.m. Nov. 23, 9 to 11 a.m. For more information, call site coordinator Haines at (913) 256-4129 or (913) 205-6662.
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