Operation Christmas Child

First Sewing Saturday Successful!

     Eight ladies partipaed in the Family Life Center on February 16th making cloth bags for Operation Christmas Child.  The bags will be used to put items in for the OCC boxes.

     BJ Pettit reports that 150 bags  were cut out with approximately 50 completted.  Way to go, ladies. Looks like fun.

Items needed this month:

• small Barbie-like dolls
• tools
• bobbers
• corks
• split-shot (lead)

  . . . it begins with a simple gift . . .

2018 Evergreen Baptist Church
nd  Smaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child

1,110 Christmas gift boxes packed with the potential to affect 11,100 lives 

Operation Christmas Child
a year-round  evangelism project

1.  coins are collected once a month by our little chilren to help pay for th the shipping costse boxes--Coins 4 Kids
2.  beginning in the Summer  church members and others donate items needed for the boxes
3. in the Fall toys, daily essential items, schissor, hammers, and all items are sorted and placed on tables by gender and age groups (ages 2 to 14)
4.  in November, boxes are packed, checked, and  the name and address of EBC, along with the name of the person who packed the box, are placed on a card which is then placed in the box
5.  a silent Prayer is made for the child receiving the box before the box is placed on the stack
6.  all of the boxes are dedicated in the church sanctuary
7.  they are packed in cartons and shipped
8.  when the box reaches its destination andis placed in the hands of a child, the special message of Jesus Christ is also given to the child in the way that the pastor or missionary determines is best

an empty box waits    

 for stuffed animals and other toys and things waiting to be packed in a box for a home

and then the loving task of packing the boxes begins

lots and lots of hard work

Special Note

     BJ Pettit is the coordinator for the Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child project here at Evergreen Baptist Church.

     There is much more work year round than what is depicted in the slideshow below; but, it illustrates how the church members all work together to get this project done.

     There are 16 slides in the show.  Each slide advances at an interval of 5 seconds each.  (Photos were cropped to get the best possible view; thus, the different sizes.)

. . . it ends with a child receiving a box and a message of the  glorious gift of God's love for all of us . . .

and so we begin again the cycle of the Christmas Child box

to all the little children of the world -- we love you too