Tonight in our church small group we made a trip to the store to buy items to put in our shoe box gifts for Samaritan's Purse: Operation Christmas Child. Gary and I bought school supplies, coloring books, candy, toothbrushes, soap, stickers, small toys, socks, etc. and filled 1 box for a 5-9 year old boy and one for a 5-9 year old girl. Epoch Church will be collecting them on Sunday and will drop them off to be shipped to children around the world for Christmas. Watch this video, it brought tears to my eyes to see how much joy such a small gift brought to these children. Boxes are due by the 22nd, so it's not too late to make a box if you want to send some Christmas cheer to a child less fortunate than we are here in the US.
Tonight I'm thankful for our church. The people there are such an encouragement to us. They inspire us to strive to be more like Christ. We're looking forward to a time of fellowship with them this weekend during a church wide retreat at Camp Peron.
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