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 we are acting as a local collection point for other organisations' 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 are holding a Packing Party on Saturday 9th November between 10 am and noon and during the following week the church will be open as a collection point for anyone to bring boxes. See the sheets below for the opening times, details on how to pack a shoebox and details of the Packing Party.
https://www.samaritans-purse.org.uk/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/