Operation Christmas Child! - Samaritan's Purse

Since 1993, more than 100 million boys and girls in over 130 countries have experienced God’s love through the power of simple shoebox gifts from Operation Christmas Child. Samaritan’s Purse works with local churches and ministry partners to deliver the gifts and share the life-changing Good News of Jesus Christ.

http://www.samaritanspurse.org/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/

For the Waco area you can pick up shoe boxes from The Family Christian Store (next to Wing Stop). Box drop off location Nov. 18-25: 

Highland Baptist Church- 3014 Maple Avenue Waco, Tx 76707

Here is a quick video featuring Bob & Larry from VeggieTales about Operation Christmas Child:

With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints. (Ephesians 6:18, NASB)

Gift-filled shoeboxes are a powerful way to introduce children to God’s greatest gift, salvation through Jesus Christ. Your prayers are essential to the work of Operation Christmas Child, so please join us during National Collection Week Nov. 18-25. Our goal this year is to collect 9.8 million shoebox gifts from the United States and nine other countries. During the week, we will pray for the people packing the boxes, the volunteers who will be collecting, processing, and delivering the gifts, and for the children receiving them.

How to pack the box:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx2BS3IL9kA

“Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet
but yours.Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion for the
world is to look out; yours are the feet with which He is to go about
doing good; and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.”
~Saint Teresa of Avila