12 TOYS! & Pads! I Love Samaritan's Purse & Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Packing for Children
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ต.ค. 2024
- Let's pack more shoeboxes, so more children hear the Gospel! Check out: Blessingsinashoebox.com and the Blessings In A Shoebox Facebook group for lots of helpful ideas and inspiration!
Join our Blessings In A Shoebox Facebook group for links to deals and inspiration for your shoebox packing!
God provides His children with really great gifts--through friends, family, and unexpected places-- so we can fill shoeboxes for the children (even as prices keep going up on so many other things)!
I hope your passion for spreading the Gospel compels you to get involved now with Operation Christmas Child. We love to send shoeboxes to children all over the world! Operation Christmas Child & Samaritan’s Purse desires to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth. We are creating beautiful full Shoebox gifts to help make that happen. Please join us in this special mission!
*Our goal is to send quality special items (with soft textures/colors/sounds) in every shoebox, so the children will feel God's love and desire a relationship with him when the Gospel message is presented at the OCC event! We are praying this will be the case for each and every child and beyond (family, friends, villagers, leaders, etc.)!
Let's keep moving forward! Run the race to win! Let's live out Hebrews 12:1 "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." Amen.
Check out the multiple resources for Operation Christmas Child shoebox packing! Look on BlessingsinaShoebox.com for: 107 Rubber Bands and many other fun and useful items on the Best Deals Page, Printables, Tutorials, age appropriate recommendations for items to pack in your shoeboxes, videos, and links to many items for your shoeboxes!
And check out: Blessings in a Shoebox Facebook Group for many links to deals on school supplies, plush, toys, socks, and more!
***It's fun to imagine the joy these shoebox gifts will bring to the children, but even better is the eternal impact I hope they have. My prayer is that God will be preparing the hearts of this little girl and her family, so that when she receives her shoebox she will believe the Gospel message and receive Jesus as Lord of her life. And, God willing, her family will follow suit!
Keep packing shoeboxes to glorify God and share the Gospel. And keep looking up--the Lord is coming soon. Let's be found about our Father's business when Jesus calls us to meet Him in the air!
Franklin Graham says PRAYER and Personal Notes are the most important thing and he wants us to send MORE TOYS in our shoeboxes and to the processing center as fillers! And that's our aim! We want children to experience delight when opening their shoebox gifts. And may that delight cause them to feel a deep desire to know more about this Jesus who loves them. And may they receive Jesus as Lord and Savior!
Want to know more about OCC and packing great shoeboxes? Watch Yves Dushime's story: From Hatred to Love on blessingsinashoebox.com. It's the first video on the page of videos at www.blessingsinashoebox.com. His podcast with Kristi Graham is even more enthralling. His testimony underscores the importance of school supplies in a shoebox!
Are you interested in an eternal relationship with Jesus Christ? Believe in Jesus, admit you have sinned and ask him to forgive your sins. Trust Him and receive him as your Savior and Lord. Read all about God in the Bible, starting in Genesis with creation to understand God and sin and the punishment for sin. Also, read the New Testament to understand what Jesus did, so that we could have forgiveness and redemption from sin. The Bible reveals God's plan for his children and the world. It tells us that Jesus will come soon for his children and we get to live forever with him!
We are blessed to have the Bible so we can know all about him.
I am very glad I can participate with Operation Christmas Child to bring the good news of Jesus and eternal life to the children around the world who have never heard about him. We are making a difference for eternity!
Link to my Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com...
Website: www.blessingsinashoebox.com
Email: christy.mantel@icloud.com
Address: Christy Mantel
PO Box 510
Hebron, KY 41048
Fav thing…Pads excellent idea! ❤ the beanie butterfly &&..😊
I’m not a seamstress. I love all the things Michele makes. I would enjoy putting her items or items like them in boxes my mom and I give.
I enjoy all your unboxings.
Thanks! Have you thought of asking someone from your church or community who sews to team up with you? She can do the sewing. You can buy the material.
I enjoyed your amazing presentation.
Mrs. Christy, you are such a strong leader and such a role model for all of us to look up to. I know you have helped me several times. Thank you so much for all of your wisdom and tips, and tricks. Thanks for sharing.
Awww thank you, Melanie!
I love how you just sparkle when you show your shoeboxes. I feel the Holy Spirit is truly in our shoeboxes.
Awww! You’re exactly right! I really do feel the Lord is helping me do everything OCC related. Jesus and the Holy Spirit is empowering me to do much more than I could ever hope or imagine! I’m glad you feel the same way! 🥰
Very nice box :) my fav is the Butterfly :)
Yes! That butterfly makes this box very, very special!
That's a shoebox packed full of quality things! I packed Barbies in organza bags with extra clothes. I sewed lace to the bottom of dresses to lengthen them.
Oh wow! Great idea! Thanks for the tip. 😊
Lots of nice items in the box!! Amazing how you fit everything in!! Love the dancing ribbon & menstrual pad kit!!😊
Thank you, Anne. I’m enjoying packing for these 10-14 girls. I fit a pair of flip flops in a couple of my boxes. That was fun! 😊
It was a fun packing party. Good job putting it together!
Thank you, Lydia!
I love it 😍 so thankful for your research and free aids on the website. Especially for making the menstrual kits!!! We want to reduce period poverty! For girls to get a full education as possible.
Amen! Thank you for supporting that idea. When we first started suggesting sending pads for the older girls, we got a lot of pushback. I’m happy to know more and more women are understanding the importance of menstrual pads and are including them in their shoeboxes. ❤
Was the ribbon wand home made or purchased? It is a beautiful addition.
I put little horses in the gaps in my boxes after I bought a few tubs of little horses only $2 I think for around 100 horses.
Oh my, Julie! That’s awesome! 🐎
I bought those same mirror compacts this year and left them in the package and also wrote OCC approved on each one. I wanted to try to make sure none got taken out of my boxes.
Oh wow! That’s what I’ll do then. Thanks for the tip, Judy!
I would keep the compact Mirror in the plastic. 😊
Thank you, Vickie. I will take your advice. What is your favorite thing to pack in your shoeboxes? I know yours are similar to mine.
How do I start planning and sewing for next year? I have always wanted to do OCC, but don't know where to begin.
Where do you get the spoons and water bottles? I found metal spoons but not plastic. I bought 4 metal to send.