Each year The Sherman Church participates in Operation Christmas Child, an effort sponsored by Samaritan’s Purse which helps children in more than 130 countries. It is one of our favorite missions, where children and families bring wrapped shoe boxes up to the front of the church so they can be sent during the holiday season.
Anyone wishing to participate should fill an empty shoe box with items for a boy or girl including toys, school supplies, hygiene items, sunglasses and other items suitable for a specific age. This is a wonderful project in which even the youngest child in the family can actively participate. Boxes will be blessed during worship service on November 16th. Boxes may be dropped off during worship, or to the church office.
A complete list of items to include and a list of things NOT to include can be found on Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child.
You may donate by check during the worship service on Sunday, or at any time by making a check out to The Sherman Church with “Operation Christmas Child” in the memo line. You may also donate online at this shermanchurch.org website under “Tithes and Offerings” with “Operation Christmas Child” in the Comments box.
Boxes may also be “filled” online by going to Sherman Church Samaritan’s Purse’s Build a Box page.