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Fill the Classrooms
July 22–26, 2024
Goal: 5,000
7,452
Classrooms filled
We've filled 7,452 classrooms! That's 156,492 children who will be discipled to follow Jesus Christ and share Him with others!
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It costs $6 to send a child on The Greatest Journey. A gift of $126 covers a classroom of 21 children.
Local volunteers from around the world teach millions of Operation Christmas Child shoebox recipients each year through The Greatest Journey discipleship program. Samaritan's Purse has trained over 1.9 million of these teachers to walk alongside boys and girls through 12 child-friendly lessons that present the Gospel and encourage them to share Jesus Christ with family and friends. Your gift allows instructors to give children resources they would otherwise not have, including a colorful student workbook, a graduation certificate, and a New Testament in their language, which is often the first copy of God's Word ever owned by their family.
“The Greatest Journey is the journey of leading children to God.”
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