Monthly Archives: December 2010
Sky News featured Operation Christmas Child on Christmas Day
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT-444kZFYQ The work of our Papua New Guinea partner, Foursquare Living Light Church, featured in Sky News Australia and New Zealand on Christmas Day 2010 (click here to see the Prime News version, NZ). To learn more about the Samaritan’s Purse funded water & sanitation project featured in this news item, visit http://samaritanspurse.com.au/project/bonanamo-village-rural-water-supply-sanitation/
Gifts for 305,976 children in 7 countries
A big THANK YOU to all of our supporters who generously packed shoe boxes with gifts for 305,976 children in 7 countries this Christmas season. Our partners are now busy hand delivering the presents to children in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Fiji, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Haiti. Imagine the joy as they are opening their gift filled shoe boxes this Christmas and please continue to pray that we will be able to meet more of their needs as our partners work with local community leaders to help change lives – in Jesus Name! Click here to read more about where …
Give a Shoe Box Wings!
Give Now Help cover the costs of Operation Christmas Child! Many of the young families and schools who give shoe boxes do not have enough money to fill the box and make the $9 donation to cover the admin costs associated with the program… in fact, about 1 in 10 shoe boxes arrive in our processing centres around Australia and New Zealand without the much needed $9 donation. The $9 for each box is vital and covers the cost of warehousing (rent), transport and training our Operation Christmas Child National Leadership Teams in each receiving country who receive and distribute …