Operation Christmas Child Family Day!

Last Friday, we headed to our second year at the Operation Christmas Child Warehouse Family Day. We had a wonderful time and brought our boxes to donate. This year the girls both saved up their own missions money to do their own box while Jay and I did a little boy 2 and under...for obvious reasons! It was in honor of our little one in Uganda!
The girls came in and were able to donate their box along with so many others and got the "thumbs up" from our guide!

Then, we headed on the journey of a shoe box! It was SO cute! It was filled with fun games, relay races, church services in Panama (the country not the city:)), and then a screening of the new Veggie Tales movie about the history of St. Nicholas. It isn't out yet so we got to enjoy it first! It has all kinds of information on it about Operation Christmas Child.

Here is the link if you have never heard of this amazing ministry of Samaritan's Purse led by Franklin Graham:

http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/

Cuties in the warehouse!

This year there were not any volunteers on Family Day. Last year it was PACKED with thousands of volunteers working...but they chose to close the warehouse for our children's safety.

We had some fun doing relay races in the warehouse. We had to do the work of the volunteers...like checking the box for war toys, liquids, chocolate, etc. We took them out and replaced them with something that WAS allowed! We also had to do all of that while "waddling" to and from the box!

Then we went to another station where we filled up a bag of candy with exactly 8 pieces and then ran back. They like for every child to get yummy candy so they have LOTS on hand to make sure those boxes are FILLED to the tip top for those sweet kiddos!

Then, it was onto a worship service with some former missionaries and then to the celebration station. They had yummy snacks, arts and crafts, and lots of fun!!

We were hurried from there into the next screening for the movie and it was SOOO cute! Can't wait until it comes out...we love Veggie Tales! And this one gives an emphasis on Operation Christmas Child and has some great footage of kids getting boxes overseas.

We loved the whole day! If you have never been involved with this amazing ministry I highly recommend it because it is so kid friendly! Samaritan's Purse does a great job of involving the kids and helping them to understand that they are not only packing a box...every single box gets a tract to share the Gospel in that child's language and shares the love of Christ!