Operation Christmas Child 2006

Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child gives under privileged kids in 3rd world countries a chance to have a fantastic Christmas. You too can be part of this at http://www.samaritanspurse.org/OCC_Index.asp

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• samaritan
• purse
• operation
• christmas
• child
• 2006
• shoebox

[xcalibur1979]

Thanks for the +ve feedback guys and God bless you all for your involvement. It will bring the kids a lot of joy. Ill see if i can find this years promo and upload it

[Monica15N]

Wow! I don't have a job yet, but I'm still going to do that this year. I want to do lots of shoe boxes..wow...

I guess the cool thing would also be watching the video in Heaven. I would love to see a box I sent make someone smile. :D

[shazzzzer]

I think it is great to know how much the children appreat the box with small gifts in them. They good make me cry.

[TheSuburbanBase]

I love OCC. God bless them and the children

[5464kenia]

aww how beautiful this video is!! It brought me tears to see a smile on those kids faces when they recived those shoe boxes... God bless them all...

[MrDannyProductions]

This is a wonderful Christan ministry. My family and I participate in this program every year through our church.

[Atlswan]

I don't think the kids receive the Christmas Boxes care about where it came from or who sent it. So a political debate on religion and politics is pointless. And petty.

[charadester]

In the direct words of your CEO, the mission of Samaritan's Purse (SP) is to convert as many people as possible to your faith. Recent news exposed his exorbitant salary...more than twice the average for relief organizations twice the size of SP. He openly promotes military aggression as an 'appropriate' Christian response to conflict, something that doesn't even remotely resemble the teaching of Jesus. Given these observations, what conclusion might you expect someone to conclude about SP?

[mowbs626]

Charadester that was a fairly heartless comment. Of course straight donations to secular charities are of great benefit but so is Samaritans Purse's approach, which meets physical and spiritual needs. If you listen carefully to the clip, acceptance of literature is NOT a pre-requisite for aid and the joy of the children involved is so obvious - I have a friend who visited a home in Romania where the empty box was still prized , sitting on top of the fireplace a year after being received!

[CherryFrog321]

I go crazy packing shoeboxes every year! It's so much fun picking out stuff for the boxes, and it's great knowing that you're helping a child. I do 3 or 4 boxes every year. I always do a younger kid since I like picking out little toys and stuff, and I also always make sure to do an older one (the 10-14 yr olds) because I've heard that not as many people do boxes for them. But yeah, Operation Christmas Child is a wonderful organization!

[OCCAlaskaMedia]

I love Operation Christmas Child! We pack boxes in Alaska too. It's amazing to think how God can use a simple shoebox gift to give a child hope and help them understand that God loves them.

[xoh20xo]

i remember this it happens in school a teacher said were joining up with operaton christmas child i am so glad school had joined up with it

[charadester]

A few crayons, a teddy bear, and a toothbrush don't compare well to a donation of $100, $50, or even $10 to a non-religious charity like Oxfam or Heifer International. Their gifts buy hundreds of pounds of critical staples with no religious strings attached. Samaritan's Purse uses trinkets as a front for a massive witnessing program. Gifts come with strings attached. If a recipient rejects the faith, I doubt the Purse would fool with him anymore. Their tax exempt status should be revoked.