Operation Christmas Child
NOV. 12 – 19: DROP-OFF SITES OPEN FOR INTERNATIONAL CHRISTMAS PROJECT
Local Families Make Global Impact Through Operation Christmas Child BOONE, N.C., Nov. 1, 2018 — This month, nearly 5,000 U.S. drop-off locations across the nation open to collect shoebox gifts for children overseas during Operation Christmas Child’s National Collection Week, Nov. 12–19. U.S. families, churches and groups are busy transforming empty shoeboxes into fun gifts…
Operation Christmas Child
THIS WEEK: U.S. COLLECTION SITES JOIN GLOBAL CHRISTMAS PROJECT TO SEND JOY TO CHILDREN OVERSEAS
Nov. 12 – 19: National Collection Week for Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Gifts BOONE, N.C., Nov. 12, 2018 — As Thanksgiving Day approaches, U.S. families are expressing their gratitude by giving back. They are filling shoeboxes with fun toys, school supplies and hygiene items to send to children in need around the world. For many…
Operation Christmas Child
NOV 26: DENVER GRAND OPENING AND DEDICATION EVENT
Operation Christmas Child Commemorates 25th Anniversary, Opens Permanent Facility for Rocky Mountain Region DENVER, Nov. 23, 2018 — Volunteers, Denver residents and project organizers are celebrating the grand opening of a permanent ministry center for Samaritan's Purse, an international Christian relief and evangelism organization. Since 1999, Denver has offered a seasonal home to one of…
Operation Christmas Child
Shoebox Label Options
Shoebox Label Options To make sure your shoebox gift gets to a child of the right gender and age, Samaritan’s Purse offers some different label options. Labels also offer a way for you to give the necessary $10 donation per shoebox to provide for collection, processing, shipping, and other project costs. If you donate online…
Operation Christmas Child
Special Access Shoebox Resources Update
Special Access Shoebox Resources for Project Leaders Click the checkboxes to agree and reveal resources. As a preapproved Project Leader, I agree to only share these resources with those involved in packing Special Access shoebox gifts. I will only distribute copies of these materials to those who are packing Special Access shoebox gifts. I will not disseminate…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Serving the Survivors in Ukraine
While lying in a cot at the Samaritan’s Purse Emergency Field Hospital, Yulia was eager to share her story. Still sore from her long-awaited surgery, she spoke softly—wincing as she shifted in her bed. A nurse wearing blue scrubs branded with the organization’s cross logo hovered close by, smiling and nodding as she listened along.…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Delivering Winter Supplies to War-Weary Ukrainians
Tetiana* and her family faced plummeting temperatures in Ukraine with a wood stove, but sadly, no fuel to fill it. The forests nearby had all been riddled with explosives from an earlier occupation by enemy forces, so gathering wood in the usual ways was out of the question. Unexploded ordnance was everywhere. “We could not…
Crisis & Disaster Response
God’s Hand Evident as Tanzania Crash Survivors Return Home
UPDATED AUGUST 18 Three months ago, three Tanzanian children were airlifted on gurneys to the United States in critical condition and faced an unknown future. Today, Sadhia, Wilson, and Doreen arrived back home in the same Samaritan’s Purse DC-8 that flew them half-way around the world for lifesaving medical care. Our aircraft took off the…
Construction Projects
Warming in Koyuk
Warming in Koyuk Samaritan's Purse staff and volunteers built a church in the remote village of Koyuk over the summer of 2023. Explore village and church life in this special place up north in Alaska. God's Country Up north in Alaska, where the forests and the tundra can swallow two states the size of Texas,…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Women Helping Women in the War Zones of Ukraine
Warmth in winter is a basic necessity that eludes many women of Ukraine as they fight for the lives of their children and their communities. Together, they face bitter cold. Some may live in homes damaged by war. Others may have to spend long hours underground in bomb shelters. In response, Samaritan’s Purse is supplying…
