Operation Christmas Child (post 1)

Last Sunday Noelle and I were sitting in church when they announced Operation Christmas Child or Shoe boxes. I turned to Noelle and said is there anyway we could do this with the children to teach them to give to others. She said, "I have always wanted to but it always been an issue of money." This year we have had an out pouring of financial support for Sunday's that we decide to take some of the extra we have right now have the children put together shoe boxes.

Step one earlier this week we sent out a letter to all the children explaining what items they could bring to church Sunday that would help fill the shoe boxes.

The one family that neither Noelle or I thought would bring something brought this...




Step two was going shopping. After lunch at church today Noelle sat the kids down an explained to them what we were going to do. Then we invaded the Dollar Tree with 16 kids and 2 adults. Each kid picked out at least one item for the shoe boxes...


and I think we made out pretty good. What do you think??

More steps to come next week...