Volunteers

Project leaders across the country, including these from New Jersey, help facilitate the shoebox packing efforts of a church or group.

Marika and Michael Chasse brought over 3,000 shoeboxes from their neighborhood packing party to this drop-off location in 2025. These shoeboxes were just a fraction of the more than 14,000 total they have packed in the last 11 years.

From the shoebox packer to volunteers at the drop-off location and processing center, many hands touch each gift before it is delivered to a child overseas in Jesus’ Name.

Marika Chasse of Johns Creek, Georgia, stands in a 26-foot box truck to receive a stack of shoeboxes and send on them on their next stop in the journey to children in need.

Shoebox gifts packed at a neighborhood party in Georgia are counted at the local drop-off location.

Church members at Restauración Los Angeles pack shoebox gifts for boys and girls in need around the world.

A year-round volunteer shows off her latest purchase from the wide variety of Operation Christmas Child apparel available.

A Dover, Delaware, couple fills a carton with prayerfully packed shoebox gifts for children in need.

Connect volunteers work throughout the year to promote the ministry of Operation Christmas Child in their local communities.

Praise God that carloads of prayerfully packed shoebox gifts arrive at over 4,500 drop-off locations open across the country during National Collection Week, the third week in November.

Volunteers at First Baptist Church of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, collect shoebox gifts their community packed.

Drop-off location volunteers of all ages serve at a Greensboro, North Carolina, church.

Drop-off location volunteers in Durham, North Carolina, fill a carton of shoebox gifts to be sent to one of eight processing centers nationwide.

Drop-off location volunteers collect shoebox gifts that individuals in their community have prayerfully packed for children in need overseas.

Volunteers at the Orange County Processing Center pause to pray over the shoebox gifts before they are inspected for overseas delivery.

A church in Punta Gorda, Florida, serves as a shoebox drop-off location for their community.

Shoebox packers deliver their prayerfully packed boxes to over 4,500 drop-off locations open across the U.S. the third week of November.

Youth in Dover, Delaware, move shoebox gifts on to their next stop—a processing center.

Volunteer pause to pray amid assembling gifts packed through Build a Shoebox Online.

Volunteers prepare gifts assembled through Build a Shoebox Online at the Midwest Ministry Center in Aurora, Illinois.

A volunteer labels a shoebox gift that was packed online.

Assembling gifts packed through Build a Shoebox Online is fun for all ages!

It takes a team of volunteers to assemble the hundreds of thousands of shoebox gifts packed online each year.

Prayer is important in the assembly of shoeboxes built online.