Operation Christmas Child
Volunteer Photos
Volunteers These photographs are available for news media outlet use in coverage of Samaritan's Purse-related stories. If your news outlet uses a photograph, please credit: “Courtesy of Samaritan's Purse.” These photographs are not for commercial use. Church members at Restauración Los Angeles pack shoebox gifts for boys and girls in need around the world. A year-round…
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Pacific Islands Initiative Press Kit
Media Resources Media Requests Articles & Stories Fact Sheets Approved Quotes Photos B-roll Pacific Islands Initiative Press Kit An Operation Christmas Child initiative is bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to isolated island nations. The goal of the five-year Pacific Island Initiative is for all children ages 2–14 across the Pacific to have the…
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Operation Christmas Child Brings Gift-Filled Shoeboxes to Palau
Franklin Graham’s bold vision to deliver gift-filled Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes in Jesus’ Name to every child on 1,000 Pacific islands—more than half a million kids—began early last year and reached more than 65,000 children in 2019. Earlier this year, the campaign arrived ashore on Palau, where scores of shoeboxes were handed out to children…
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God Uses Shoebox Gifts to Grow a Church in Cambodia
Gift-filled shoeboxes are packed for children, but they influence entire families and communities. They even help start and grow churches, like Seed of Faith in Cambodia. When their Pastor Ponleu* got involved with Samaritan’s Purse and hosted Operation Christmas Child outreach events, the Good News of Jesus Christ began changing the boys and girls who…
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Local Christians Use Shoebox Gifts to Help Plant Churches in Remote Mongolia
Highways leading out of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital city, continue east for many miles as far as the city of Chinggis. From there, the roads diminish to mere gravel paths that stretch across the vast pasturelands of Khenti Province. It’s from Chinggis, where transportation begins to get more difficult, that six churches are praying—paving the way—for…
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Shoeboxes Go to the Very Ends of the Earth
Baljinnyam’s address might as well be “the ends of the earth.” To reach the valley where his two gers are located, you must drive more than nine hours west of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to the province center of Bayankhongor. Since this is the province where Baljinnyam lives, you might think you’ve arrived, but the true journey…
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Bringing Hearts to Christ in Cambodia
Hands clasped, heads bowed, children whisper their first words to the Creator they’ve just learned about. This moment of solemn surrender happens at tens of thousands of Operation Christmas Child outreach events across the globe each year. Watching one such prayer in his home country of Cambodia was especially meaningful to a boy named Samay*.…
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Azima and a Teddy Bear
Azima & Teddy Bear Please enable Javascript to watch this video In times of sorrow and grief when I needed to be reminded of God's love, I would clutch my shoebox close to my heart and pray. These words have been life-changing to me: “I might not know you, but always know that Jesus loves…
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Operation Christmas Child Video PSA’s
Video PSA's Our PSAs are available for use by media outlets and websites in the United States. Unless a kill date is noted, PSAs can be aired indefinitely. If you would like to automatically receive new PSAs from Samaritan's Purse, please email PSA@samaritan.org with your request. Let the Little Children Come (Commercial) Download Overview Promo…
