Archive for December, 2009

Smiles Along the River as the First Boxes Arrive

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

The distances and efforts that are made to get these boxes to children are always amazing. To think that any one of these shoeboxes tells a story of the heart of the people packing them, then that box travels from them, to Samaritan’s Purse warehouse, to the shipping yard, then overseas on a long journey, then onto the partner church, then down a long and winding road, through a jungle, down a river, then more jungle and finally into the hands of one very important child!
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Gift Filled Shoe Boxes to the Children of PNG

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

As of December 16, 2009 we have shipped a total of 306,408 gift filled shoe boxes to children in Cambodia, Fiji, PNG, Samoa, Thailand, Vanuatu and Vietnam. Please continue to pray for our indigenous partners as some of these are still being delivered over the next few weeks! Our indigenous partners go to extreme lengths to get these boxes into children’s hands.
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