Operation Christmas Child Still Accepting Donations

Many local churches participate in Operation Christmas Child, a part of the Samaritan’s Purse Gospel outreach, in which shoe boxes are filled with toys and essential items, wrapped in Christmas cheer, and sent to children throughout the globe. In this way, the Gospel is presented in a child-friendly way.

Trish Lusher, Buffalo, who grew up in the Clearmont-Ucross area, was at the Clearmont Community Church during the Clearmont Fall Shop Hop filling shoe boxes for the youngsters. These boxes will be taken to the Summit Church in Buffalo on November 15, to be collected and sent to children in many other countries.

She said they tried something different this year, letting the youngsters in the church help fill the boxes.

Donations will be accepted until at least November 23. “That’s when the truck comes to pick up the boxes at Summit Church in Buffalo. It’s a collection point in the Buffalo area.”

When asked what kind of donations they accepted, Lusher said,

The shoe boxes are festively wrapped, and this may well be the first Christmas gift many of these children have received. To learn more talk to Summit Church in Buffalo, or the Clearmont Community Church in Clearmont.