Operation Christmas Child..

Franklin Graham, through the ministry of Samaritan's Purse, started a program for children around the world.The mission of Operation Christmas Child is to demonstrate God's love in a tangible way to needy children around the world, and together with the local church worldwide, to share the Good News of Jesus Christ.
And it all starts with a shoe box. How simple is that!
Valley Forge has beautiful students who give faith promises each month, do local community projects, bless missionaries who come to speak in chapel and do things like Operation Christmas Child.

At least 75 students met in Solomon's Porch tonight on campus to wrap and stuff the boxes. That is after the students went shopping for everything to put in the boxes. Last month they collected the shoeboxes from those on campus and the professors. There was $1000 worth of items in Denny's car trunk the last couple of days and tonight we unloaded, set up different stations, started wrapping and had lots of fun while listening to Christmas music.

I think some times it is really fun to get in the Christmas spirit before Thanksgiving!

One of the stations was writing Merry Christmas letters for all the boxes.

 

Let the wrapping begin!

 

 

Then the students would take the wrapped shoe box and fill it. so much fun! Little gifts for little people!

 

We had to take pictures at the end, many students came and worked, then left, some remained till the end.

 

The boxes are ready for the next stage. Loaded into a van.

 

160 boxes ready, packed and ready to be transported tomorrow to a church in Malvern.

 

What a beautiful expression of love, gift boxes for children we don't know, but love anyway.