Operation Christmas Child

As Christmas gets closer more and more festive movies come on, decorations begin to appear in stores, and people get in the holiday spirit. What people do not see is that there are families who cannot afford to provide the Christmas that everyone dreams of having. For those across the world in third world countries who do not have the luxuries that Americans have there is an organization who collects goodies for children, that organization is called Operation Christmas Child. Operation Christmas Child was created by Samaritan's Purse in order to show the love of Christ to others by filling up shoe boxes of things that a child needs such as, toothbrushes, toothpaste, toboggans, gloves, and brushes. My church, Dry Ponds Baptist Church participates in the shoe box drive every year. This year is different. One of the ladies that was the reason we joined up with Samaritan's Purse passed away from cancer. Every year Beverly made it her top priority to collect as many items as possible, to fill up as many boxes as possible. Beverly would use the G.A’s to pack the boxes and label them. She made it her goal to pack and ship at least a hundred boxes every year. In honor of her we are packing and shipping one hundred and fifty boxes because we knew it would make Beverly happy. I am proud to say that Dry Ponds Baptist Church will meet the goal for one hundred and fifty boxes and might even surpass that number. I know Beverly is looking down on us from heaven smiling because it is something she loved most.