Over 1,000 shoeboxes filled with gifts for Operation Christmas Child
Thanks to people in Terrebonne and Lafourche, over 1,000 children worldwide will celebrate Christmas with gifts through Operation Christmas Child. Operation Christmas Child is a project run by The Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian humanitarian aid organization with the goal to collect shoeboxes filled with toys, hygiene products, and school supplies to send to children in need around the world. At First Baptist Church of Houma, the local drop-off point for the campaign, 1,051 such shoeboxes were collected from fellow church members and those in the greater community. Colleen Marcel, a longtim...
Source: houmatoday.com