There’s a place in Ocean Springs, Mississippi where calories don’t count and adulting is temporarily suspended. The Candy Cottage & Gourmet stands like a beacon of sweetness among the oak-lined ...

This year, Operation Christmas Child will celebrate its 30th year of ministry. Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child, the world’s largest Christmas project of its kind, has collected and ...

This year, Operation Christmas Child will celebrate its 30th year of ministry. Shoebox season kicks into high gear in the fall, cumulating with National Collection Week November 13-20. Operation ...

Calumet Ave, will serve as a 2004 drop-off site for Operation Christmas Child. The church will be open to receive gift-filled shoe boxes during the project's National Collection Week Local hours ...

Faith Church in West Hazleton was a drop-off site for Operation Christmas Child, a division of Samaritans Purse. Members of Faith Church prepare and pack boxes to be shipped overseas.(SUBMITTED ...

In 2023 alone, 11.3 million boxes were collected. The program has come a long way. Tiffany Wieber stands among some of the shoeboxes packed by Spring Lake Church for Operation Christmas Child.

Anyone wondering if the Christmas spirit is alive in the area need look no further than the local implementation of the Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child program, a project dedicated ...

While she was in college, she saw a video about Operation Christmas Child — an effort to fill shoe boxes with toys and other items and send to remote areas of the world. She saw the red and ...

Thousands of volunteers contributed to Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan ... the global Christmas project will deliver these boxes to children in more than 100 countries, including ...

Upon arriving at the collection center, Beth Hiller, the regional director for Operation Christmas Child, was busily readying the boxes for shipping to their assigned destination, so our ladies ...

Students gathered donations to create shoe boxes full of supplies and gifts for children around the world through Operation Christmas Child. The children packed all 32 boxes themselves. Samaritan’s ...

In the third week of November, Operation Christmas Child collects shoeboxes — filled with school supplies, toys and personal care items. The shoe boxes are packed by people across the nation.