Our 2023 Operation Christmas Child is accelerating into spring.
The Fellowship of the Cross conducted a March inventory that revealed we have more than enough stuffed animals, sunglasses, scissors, and rulers to accommodate 100 boxes. We’re grateful to those who have made contributions through the winter.
We will be collecting gift items to fill the Christmas shoeboxes through September. This is the SUMC family’s 13th year of contributing to Operation Christmas Child, and we have filled more than 1,300 boxes in the past 12 years.
The FOTC donation box is located outside the church office on a shelf beneath the bulletin board.
Suggested donations include school supplies (pens, pencils, crayons, notebooks, and glue sticks), wearables (T-shirts, socks, caps), personal grooming items (brushes, combs, toothbrushes), and “wow” gifts such as dolls, balls, jewelry, hair accessories, and toy cars.
Our 2022 OCC boxes reached children in South Africa, Liberia, Honduras, and Ecuador. In previous years, our boxes journeyed to the Dominican Republic, Columbia, the Bahamas, Ukraine, multiple nations in Africa, and to a country that could not be revealed for security reasons.