Operation Christmas Child National Collection Week
Poughkeepsie Hopes to Collect 6,200 Gift-Filled Shoe Boxes Nov. 17-24 for World’s Largest Christmas Project
Local volunteers are collecting simple shoe box gifts personally packed by children, families, and individuals here in Dutchess County. From Poughkeepsie, the shoe box gifts will be sorted and sent using whatever means necessary—sea containers, trucks, buses, trains, airplanes, helicopters, boats, camels, even dog sleds—to reach suffering children around the world.
LOCAL COLLECTION SITES:
Vassar Road Baptist Church
72 Vassar Road
Poughkeepsie, NY
(800) 590-3885
Cornerstone Bible Fellowship
1592 Hollow Road
Clinton Corners, NY
(800) 590-3885
Lyall Memorial Federated Church
30 Maple Avenue
Millbrook, NY
(800) 590-3885
Oasis Ministries
7 Delevan Avenue
Beacon, NY
(845) 831-0114
The Mission Church
4101 Route 52
Holmes, NY
(800) 590-3885
Right now you can join the effort to help the world’s largest Christmas project hand-deliver some 8 million gift-filled shoe boxes to children in more than 90 countries suffering from natural disaster, war, terrorism, disease, famine, and poverty.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO GET INVOLVED:
* PREPARE—Enlist families, churches, scout troops, community groups and businesses to take part in creating shoe box gifts for needy children worldwide.
* PACK—Fill shoe boxes with school supplies, toys, necessity items, candy and a letter of encouragement. Step-by-step shoe box packing instructions are available at www.samaritanspurse.org.
* PROCESS—Sign up to join Operation Christmas Child volunteers at a collection site in Dutchess County as part of the effort to prepare millions of shoe box gifts for delivery to underprivileged kids on six continents.
Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child, a project of international Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse headed by Franklin Graham, has delivered more than 61 million gift-filled shoe boxes to needy children in some 130 countries.
For more information on how to participate in Operation Christmas Child, call (800) 590-3885 or visit www.samaritan.org. National Collection Week is Nov. 17-24.
