| Christmas is arriving early in Grantsville, as the First Baptist Church prepares to serve as a collection point for Operation Christmas Child.
Local collection will be held at the First Baptist Church, 416 High Street, Grantsville, November 15-21 (Monday through Saturday from 12-noon to 4 p.m., and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.) Call 304-354-7574 for more information.
Through Operation Christmas Child, the world's largest Christmas project. Grantsville residents are helping send shoe box gifts this year to more than 8 million children in 100 countries suffering from natural disaster, war, terrorism, disease, famine and poverty. From Grantsville, the shoe box gifts will be sorted and sent using whatever means necessaryâsea containers, trucks, trains, airplanes, boats, camels, even dog sledsâto reach suffering children around the world.
Operation Christmas Child uses tracking technology that allows donors to "follow your box" to the destination country where it will be hand-delivered to a child in need. To register shoe box gifts and find out what country they are delivered to, use the EZ Give donation form found at samaritanspurse.org
This is the first year the Grantsville First Baptist Church has served as a drop-off point for Operation Christmas Child. In 2010, organizers hope to collect over 250 gift-filled shoe boxes from families, kids, churches, schools and civic organizations in the area.
Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child, a project of international Christian relief and evangelism organization Samaritan's Purse, headed by Franklin Graham, has delivered more than 77 million gift-filled shoe boxes to needy children in some 130 countries.
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