{"id":58510,"date":"2016-02-18T08:51:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T13:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.samaritanspurse.org\/?p=58510"},"modified":"2016-11-01T10:51:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T14:51:17","slug":"operation-christmas-child-exceeds-collection-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/operation-christmas-child\/operation-christmas-child-exceeds-collection-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Christmas Child Exceeds Collection Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>More than 11 million Children in Need to Receive Gift-filled Shoeboxes<\/em><\/h4>\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>BOONE, N.C., Feb. 16, 2016<\/strong> \u2014 Because of the generosity of donors across the United States, the Operation Christmas Child project of Samaritan\u2019s Purse collected more than 8.7 million shoebox gifts\u2014filled with fun toys, school supplies and hygiene items\u2014for children in need around the world. Combined with shoebox gifts collected from partnering countries in 2015, the ministry is now sending more than 11.2 million shoebox gifts to children in more than 100 countries.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>\u201cMost of the boys and girls who receive shoebox gifts have never received any kind of present before,\u201d said Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan\u2019s Purse. \u201cThat child will never forget the gift or the message it conveyed about the love of Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/em><\/p>   \r\n\r\n<p>Many children who receive shoebox gifts will also enroll in Operation Christmas Child\u2019s 12-lesson discipleship program, The Greatest Journey. This program teaches children about God\u2019s amazing love and guides them through what it means to faithfully follow Jesus Christ. Since 2009, more than 7.4 million children have participated in the program.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Although local drop-off locations for gifts are closed until November 2016, shoeboxes can still be packed and sent year-round to Samaritan\u2019s Purse headquarters in Boone, North Carolina (801 Bamboo Road, Boone, NC 28607). Anyone can conveniently pack a personalized Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift at <a href=\"\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/what-we-do\/operation-christmas-child\/\">samaritanspurse.org\/occ-espanol<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan\u2019s Purse, an international Christian relief and evangelism organization headed by Franklin Graham. Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child has collected more than 135 million gift-filled shoeboxes for children in more than 150 countries and territories. In 2016, Operation Christmas Child hopes to reach another 12 million children. To learn about year-round volunteer opportunities or to serve with Operation Christmas Child, visit <a href=\"\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/what-we-do\/operation-christmas-child\/\">samaritanspurse.org\/occ-espanol<\/a>.<\/p> \r\n\r\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"> <\/div>\r\n\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"\/es\/our-ministry\/occ-newsroom\/\" target=\"\" class=\"sc-button lightblue-button left-button\"><span>Return to OCC Media Resources<\/span><\/a>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 11 million Children in Need to Receive Gift-filled Shoeboxes BOONE, N.C., Feb. 16, 2016 \u2014 Because of the generosity of donors across the United States, the Operation Christmas Child project of Samaritan\u2019s Purse collected more than 8.7 million shoebox gifts\u2014filled with fun toys, school supplies and hygiene items\u2014for children in need around the [&#038;hellip","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operation-christmas-child","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69441,"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58510\/revisions\/69441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}