Volunteers

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  • 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.

Operation Christmas Child® is a project of Samaritan's Purse®.
Operation Christmas Child® is a project of Samaritan's Purse®.
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