Processing Center Season

Volunteers who also serve with North American Disaster Relief pack cartons full of shoebox gifts at the Baltimore processing center.

Processing center personnel fill cartons of shoeboxes for boys ages 5-9 and 10-14.

It takes thousands of volunteers each year to process millions of shoebox gifts for international shipment!

With every carton of shoeboxes transported, forklift drivers are a crucial part of bringing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to children in need around the world.

Volunteers process cartons of shoeboxes at our Baltimore processing center—Samaritan’s Purse first permanent facility in the area opened in 2025.

A staff member welcomes volunteers to the shoebox processing center in Windsor Mill, Maryland.

Young and old serve together at the Operation Christmas Child processing center based at our Mid-Atlantic Ministry Center in Maryland.

A volunteer in Boone, North Carolina serves with a smile—showing the joy characteristic of the regional shoebox processing centers.

Cartons of shoeboxes are scanned at the Boone, North Carolina, processing center. Packers that gave through Follow Your Box will soon know the country destination of their box!

Processing center staff and volunteers pray over cartons of inspected shoebox gifts before they leave the warehouse.

Volunteers in Aurora, Illinois, celebrate a milestone of more shoebox gifts being processed for boys and girls in need around the world.

A volunteer tapes shut an inspected shoebox gift at the Operation Christmas Child processing center in Aurora, Illinois.

A volunteer at the Aurora, Illinois, processing center scans a Follow Your Box shoebox label to notify its sender where it will be delivered in Jesus' Name.

Processing center volunteers serve with joy as they work to share the true meaning of Christmas with children around the world.

Another box of prayerfully packed shoebox gifts is ready for shipment at the Denver processing center.

A volunteer at the Dallas/Ft. Worth processing center is one of the last people to handle a shoebox gift before it is delivered to a child in need overseas.

Volunteers gather gifts-in-kind to use as filler items in some shoeboxes.

A volunteer at the Dallas/Ft. Worth processing center tapes shut a carton of inspected shoebox gifts before sending it on its way to children in need.

Processing center volunteers fill cartons with shoeboxes that have been carefully inspected for international delivery.

Sometimes fitting the maximum number of shoebox gifts into a shipping carton is like completing a three-dimensional puzzle.

A Denver processing center volunteer carefully fits as many shoebox gifts as possible into each carton before they are shipped to ministry partners overseas.

Processing center volunteers in Boone, North Carolina, encourage one another as more shoebox gifts are ready to be shipped overseas.