It is not too early to begin gathering items for Operation Christmas child boxes...
I was just in their site and it sAid that over 124 million boxes have been distributed since it began in 1993.. That means we are on a second generation of children to receive these free gifts around the world in "open and closed" countries. What a joy!!!
I think about my recent trip to Yucatan, and the joy that was in the faces of the children there to receive a soccer ball or a new toothbrush and toothpaste. What fun it would have been to give each child a box filled with goodies packed by someone praying for them in the United States...
I just think of the abundance that we live around and take for granted...giving is so easy...help me to be that cheerful giver, imagining the smiles that simple gifts give,...Thank YOU for the opportunity...
Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Psalm 65:11 You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.
2 Corinthians 9:7 Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Jude 1:2 Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.
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