For some reason, we haven't done this as a family before. We used to do it every year when I was younger and I don't really know why we haven't started this tradition in our family before now. Lily and I were at Chickfila a few weeks ago and saw an Operation Christmas Child table setup near the order line. Lily was checking it out and after I explained to her what it was, she was eager to do it. We went shopping for our gifts over the weekend and packed up our box tonight. It turns out that we got a little too much, but we were able to finally stuff it all in the box after a few tries.
I'm looking forward to continuing this tradition every year and following our box online to find out where it ends up. If you're interested in doing this yourself, you can go to the
Samaritan's Purse website to get all the details. In addition to filling up shoeboxes, Samaritan's Purse says the best thing you can do for them is prayer - prayer for their organization and the Operation Christmas Child project and prayer for the recipients of the shoeboxes, who are all children.
