OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD
Children Around the World Need Your Help
Each year we support Operation Christmas Child to provide gift boxes for children all over the world who are living in difficult circumstances. In 2023 everyone generously gave gifts to send over 80 plus £455 carriage donations via Samaritan’s Purse ‘Operation Christmas Child’ to children living in poverty. We held a pop up cafe on the 12th October to raise funds for this year's appeal and held a packing Party on Saturday 9th November. We also acted as a local collection point for other organisations' boxes. This year sthe church packed 79 boxes but received a further 36 boxes from individuals and organisations meaning that 117 boxes were sent from our collection point in total. Thank you to everyone who helped with this effort and to those who donated packed boxes. The distribution of shoeboxes at the destination is always via a trusted Christian church or charity which is important as some boxes will go to countries that do not have the same social, politcal and religious freedoms that we enjoy. We look kforward to taking part in Operation Christmas Child in 2025 - follow the link at the bottom of this page to look at the Samaritan's Purse website and worldwide details abolut Operation Christmas Child.
https://www.samaritans-purse.org.uk/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/