Operation Christmas Child Outreach
Second-quarter Chapel offerings will be donated to Operation Christmas Child (OCC). Mrs. Foglesong and the 1st-grade students will kick off OCC at a school assembly on November 3rd at 1:30 p.m. in the gym. Each year the “Packing Party” (November 17th at 1 p.m. this year) engages students directly in this important work. If you would like to help with the project consider making a shoebox yourself or an extra financial gift so that we can “match” the offerings provided by our school children.
Since 1993 more than 200 million OCC shoebox gifts have been delivered to children throughout the world. Each of our school children will be encouraged to fill an OCC Shoebox with items like a soccer ball with a pump, stuffed animals, small dolls, Hot Wheel cars, yo-yos, bouncy balls, tennis balls, stress balls, small Lego boxes, a wind-up flashlight, party necklaces, bar of soap, washcloth, toothbrush, brush or comb, small notebook, pencils, crayons, markers, erasers, pencil sharpeners, glue sticks, scissors, stickers and more!!
Click through to the OCC wishlist on Amazon if you’d like to share. People can purchase and donate these items for our packing party or they can simply view the list to get ideas for their own shoeboxes.
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