Samaritans Purse, a large Christian based organization that has a global impact, has as one of their ministries Operation Christmas Child, that has a global impact in its own right.
If you read about "over a million shoeboxes distributed world wide", with tens of thousands of participants from all countries you can feel rather insignificant in the cause.
But....there is something different....in the way this is done...it is one on one.
One shoebox is personal, is significant in this huge global ministry.
You may think you are insignificant, but the one box YOU pack goes to ONE child. They open it, spend time with it, keep and save things, love every item and in so many cases, God has proven over and over, that children get the box that was meant for them. Items that seem specific to that child when it was packed weeks, months before, by an individual who does not know where the box is going, let alone who is getting it!
📖 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Luke 6:38
Each box you pack is an individual endeavor and that exact box is placed into a single child's hands.
When bringing shoeboxes into our church (we are a collection center for our area), you get a peek at the personal touches people add to their boxes.
Our church makes sure every lid of the 504 boxes we pack has a traced hand print and a sticker with a short poem:
Put your hand on mine, I am praying for you. Will you pray with me? God's love is all around, just take a look and see!
Each lid of the 504 shoeboxes we pack at our church is touched by one of our children and then will be given to a child.
The other significance of each shoebox is that with each box a child receives "The Greatest Journey " a 12 lesson discipleship program in their own language is given to them and once they complete the program they have a graduation ceremony for the children!
Personal, significant, eternal.
Impacting the world for Christ one shoebox at a time!
📖 “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish. Matthew 18:12-14
🙏 I pray you find significance in the insignificant while in service for Him.❤️
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