The mission of Operation Christmas Child is to demonstrate God’s love in a tangible way to children in need around the world. Through this project, Samaritan’s Purse partners with the local church worldwide to share the Good News of Jesus Christ and make disciples of the nations.
“Let the children come to Me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.” Mark 10:14, ESV
When you read these words from scripture, the last thing many people think about is how God will take a donation and multiply it in more ways than you can imagine. Well, that is exactly what has happened inside the walls of Wesley Chapel. We have been immeasurably blessed with donations that go for various causes outside the walls of Wesley Chapel. As of late, the blessings have been flowing with Shoeboxes packed full of love and kindness, but more importantly...JESUS! Every year I am in awe of how this all comes together for our church to bless those all around the world.
After being in Paraguay and seeing the love that poured out of the boxes and flowed through each outreach event, it became more apparent that we need to do more to reach the ends of the earth and spread the Gospel. How do we do this while living in Rockwood? Well, the easy answer is to pack more boxes! When you hear that at one outreach event, 10 boxes that went out into the hands of the children brought back 50 children to the Greatest Journey 12 week program, you can only do one thing, happy dance! These small tangible gifts that we as a church collectively packed are doing far more than we could ever physically see here earthside.
A BIG THANK YOU to each person that prayed, donated, helped organize, those who attended the packing party, or those who individually packed a box - you have helped create ABUNDANCE and BLESSINGS. A special thank you to Brooklyn and Faith for helping to pack my car in a windstorm so the boxes were able to go for a short ride to Kingwood before departing to Baltimore, Maryland. On Monday, November 25th, the boxes were loaded onto two pup trucks and prayed over before pulling out to Baltimore. There they will be processed by hundreds of volunteers.
The boxes will be covered in prayer and then begin their journey to the child that God has chosen from the start. Some boxes will be received by children within months and others will take a longer journey and may not reach their destination until summer. But each and every box packed and collected will within the year be distributed to GOD’S Children. Just last year at this time we were packing and praying over 257 boxes, and with your prayers and GOD’S ABUNDANCE, we delivered 301 Shoeboxes to Kingwood.
Again thank you to everyone for your support and allowing this mission to grow within the walls of Wesley Chapel.
~Submitted by Mindy Singo
