Third Annual Daniel Island-Wide Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Program needs your help

Imagine being a young child in a foreign country who has never received a gift of any kind. Now imagine making a difference in the life of that child!

Join your neighbors on Daniel Island as we gather to pack shoeboxes full of gift items, school supplies, hygiene items, and lots of love on Saturday, November 21st at the Church of the Holy Cross on Daniel Island, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. or until the last shoebox is packed. These boxes will be sent to children in second and third world countries, where they will be presented with the message of the Gospel of Jesus.

Where else can you be a missionary without ever leaving the Charleston area?

In order to reach our goal of 500 shoeboxes, we need your help! We need lots and lots of filler items. If you know of anyone or any business that might be willing to donate products or money to help us out, feel free to contact them. T-shirts and marketing/printing places are usually great about donating any overruns or mistaken printing that they can’t sell but that we can send out of the country. Sometimes restaurants/banks/other businesses will donate marketing items they no longer need - items with their logo on it - or maybe an old logo they no longer use. We can use them in a shoebox!

Suggested items to donate include: pens/pencils/crayons, hard candy, shirts, ball caps, cups, water bottles, drawstring bags, tooth paste and tooth brushes, loose leaf paper or spiral notebooks, small toys/balls/matchbox-type cars, soap and wash clothes.

If you are able to secure any these types of donations, please contact Jennifer Roberts at (843) 270-1161 or jcsroberts@yahoo.com. A big thank you SunTrust on the island and Manager Sheila Underwood! They will be collecting items from mid-October through November 20.

For ideas of what to donate, go to http://www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/what-goes-in-my....

For more information about how to get involved the day of the event or before the event as we collect filler items for the shoeboxes, please contact Jennifer Roberts at (843) 270-1161 or at jcsroberts@yahoo.com.

Daniel Island Publishing

225 Seven Farms Drive
Unit 108
Daniel Island, SC 29492 

Office Number: 843-856-1999
Fax Number: 843-856-8555

 

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