The farming community of Belle, Missouri, has a population of just 1,300 people, but on Sunday, they accomplished much through prayer. At their 23rd annual Operation Christmas Child dedication service at First Baptist Church, 120 people from more than 25 different churches gathered to commit 1,744 shoebox gifts to God’s purposes around the globe. Each…
Operation Christmas Child
Samaritan’s Purse Celebrates 10.5 Million Shoebox Gifts Collected for Children in Need
Samaritan's Purse Celebrates 10.5 Million Shoebox Gifts Collected for Children in Need BOONE, N.C., Jan. 17, 2020 Because of the generosity of donors across the United States, Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse, collected more than 8.9 million shoeboxes in 2019. Packed with fun toys, school supplies and hygiene items, these gifts bring joy and the eternal…
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Fact Sheet: Operation Christmas Child
Operation Christmas Child What is Operation Christmas Child? The Samaritan's Purse project Operation Christmas Child collects shoebox gifts filled with fun toys, school supplies and hygiene items—and delivers them to children in need around the world to demonstrate God’s love in a tangible way. For many of these children, the gift-filled shoebox is the first…
Operation Christmas Child
Volunteer Perseveres in Leadership Despite Challenges
After spending 24 years as a special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kathy Aiken found a different calling. Today, Kathy serves as an area coordinator for the Operation Christmas Child East Alabama Area Team. Based out of Talladega County, Kathy leads a team of volunteers that promote shoebox packing year-round. “I feel like…
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Franklin Graham Hands Out Shoeboxes on Saipan and Guam
Feb. 22-23 UPDATE Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham and his wife Jane, along with musical artist Michael W. Smith, traveled to Guam on Saturday, Feb. 22, to help hand out gift-filled Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes at Life in the Son Christian Fellowship in Tamuning. The day before the trio assisted in distributing shoeboxes on nearby…
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Building Church Partners
Dally Quintana serves as the church relations coordinator in Chicago, where she leads a team of volunteers to promote Operation Christmas Child among their congregations. Dally and her husband, Hector, began volunteering with Operation Christmas Child in 2012 and have packed shoeboxes for over 17 years. They started out as project leaders in their church,…
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Operation Christmas Child – Ways To Give
Ways To Give Operation Christmas Child Good News. Great Joy. Operation Christmas Child - 013477 $10+ ↑ ↓ Total Amount Give Now Single Gift Monthly Gift Adopt a Shoebox: $10 Adopt a Carton (15 Shoeboxes): $150 Adopt an Outreach Event (100 Shoeboxes): $1,000 Your donations are critical for Operation Christmas Child shoebox collecting, processing, and…
50 Years of Ministry
Good News and Great Joy for Children Around the World
The summer of 1993, Franklin Graham received a call from England asking if he would fill shoeboxes with gifts for kids in war-torn Eastern Europe. Familiar with the suffering there from his recent visits to the region, Franklin agreed. Around Thanksgiving, his office received another call from England asking about the gifts. Franklin remembered the…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Samaritan’s Purse Completes Work in Tornado-Devastated Texas
Samaritan’s Purse volunteer teams have completed work in Onalaska, Texas, where homeowners were recovering after an EF3 tornado packing 140 mile per hour winds tore through several neighborhoods in the late afternoon of April 22. More than 370 volunteers joined our efforts to help these hurting homeowners in Jesus’ Name by clearing fallen trees and…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Franklin Graham Thanks Medical Team as Central Park Hospital Closes
Franklin Graham traveled to New York City today to thank Samaritan’s Purse staff members who have been working on the frontlines to care for COVID-19 patients at our Central Park Emergency Field Hospital. “I want to thank all of you for everything you’ve done. We give God the glory for it,” Graham said. “We are…
