Your Chance to Change the World for Christ
This Christmas, you can share the love and hope of Jesus Christ with a needy
child by using a simple shoe box. Operation Christmas Child is an easy missions
project that every person and family can participate in by bringing a
gift-filled shoe box to church any Sunday from October 7th through November
11th. Complete details are outlined in the Operation Christmas Child
brochure located in the back of the church, the display table in the foyer of
the Christian Education building, or the office. To get started on your shoe
box, pick up a brochure today! Questions? Contact Terri Bradbury at tnbradbury@hotmail.com or visit www.samaritanspurse.org .
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South Africa:
An update from Franklin Graham
Shoe box gifts bring God’s love to hurting children in Eastern Europe, Africa,
Asia, and Latin America.
It’s amazing how God can use simple gift-filled shoe boxes to transform lives!
That’s what happened in Senegal, a desert country on the western coast of Africa
with a population that is 94 percent Muslim.
A Christian teacher assigned to a notoriously weak school invited Operation
Christmas Child to encourage his students with shoe box gifts and Gospel
storybooks. Not only did the students’ academic work improve dramatically over
the next year, but they were so enthusiastic about the Gospel that they began
meeting for prayer and Bible study. A missionary arranged for a work team to
come from Canada to Senegal to construct a small church building. Now about 200
children and an increasing number of adults gather each week to worship God and
learn more about Jesus. Dozens have accepted Christ as their Savior.
When you pack a shoe box for Operation Christmas Child and pray for the child
who will receive it, you play a vital role in helping spread the Gospel in
places like Senegal. This year, we are planning to hand out shoe box gifts to
some 8 million girls and boys in almost 100 countries around the world.
"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.
And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material
possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the
love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but
with actions and in truth." -1 John 3:16-17
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