Generous Donors Assist Local Partners to Deliver OCC Shoe Boxes
As you may know, for every Operation Christmas Child shoe box that is provided, Samaritan’s Purse requires $8 to cover warehousing, transport and critical training programs for national teams in the countries that receive and then distribute the shoe boxes.
This past Christmas, however, we struck upon an unexpected challenge. Due to the financial crisis and increasing distribution costs, our local partners in the receiving countries (churches and community groups) asked us for an additional $94,000 to deliver the boxes to the children.
We prayed earnestly for God’s provision for our partners and we were astonished at the generous response.
We are thrilled to report that within just a few weeks, we received $110,000!
This was a wonderfully encouraging response and demonstrates how deeply committed many of you are to the children and families who are served through Samaritan’s Purse, and also to our local partners who are so crucial to carrying out our projects.
March 4th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
That these boxes are so well received is wonderful, but, I can’t begin to tell you how much pleasure I get from filling these shoe boxes. I just can’t stop at one or two and filled about five last Christmas. My sister-in-law saw how much pleasure I got from filling the boxes that last year she also filled several boxes. It is such a tangible way of giving to children in poorer countries and ensuring that the gift goes to its intended recipient.
Neither of us are regular church goers, but we can see the power and pleasure that these simple boxes can give to children in other countries and feel blessed that we are able to participate.
We will be filling more next Christmas