Community Responds to
Operation Christmas Child Once again this year local schools, churches and business have acted as collection points for hundreds of shoe-boxes filled with gifts for children who otherwise would have nothing this Christmas.
Operation Christmas Child is run by
Samaritan’s Purse a charity that takes shoe- boxes to children in Africa, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
This year, for the first time, The Church of The Nazarene in Houston offered to act as a receiving and sorting station for the boxes in this immediate area. The Church now meet in the Village Hall building in Main Street and, with the help of volunteers from the community, have successfully processed boxes collected from many collection points in the area which have now been sent on to be loaded onto the lorries which will take them to the children.
Every year it is wonderful to see the videos
of the children receiving their gifts and the joy it gives them, not only because of the gift itself, but because they know that somebody cares.
Thanks must go to all of the schools, churches, and businesses who support this fantastic work each year. Thanks also to all of those in the community who, despite the current situation at home, are willing to fill and donate these shoe-boxes which mean so much to children who have nothing.
It is very evident as we go to schools to uplift the boxes that the children here get a great deal of pleasure from being involved
in this project. In talking with the volunteers too they have said how worthwhile they have found their involvement and many have already asked to be involved next year.
Photos taken at Houston Primary and Nursery, Bridge of weir Primary and Nursery and at the Village Hall
in Houston where our Church (church of the Nazarene) was turned into a sorting, checking and packing centre with volunteers from our community. 8 |JANUARY 2012 | your LOCAL news every month - in print and online |
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