Packing Party

This is National Collection Week for Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes.  We always love buying our gifts and packing our shoeboxes each year.  It was even more fun this year because we had a shoebox packing party at church tonight.  On Thursday morning, Ben labored over a letter to put in his box.  He wrote, "The Lord is good.  He watches over you."  (I had to help him with the spelling.)  That came from two verses he's memorized in Sunday School this fall.  Nahum 1:7 – “The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble.  He cares for those who trust in Him.”  Psalm 121:5a – “The Lord watches over you.”  Mollie colored a picture of the nativity scene to put in her box.

 All the kids (that come on Sunday nights) watching a video about Operation Christmas Child.

 On Monday we shopped for gifts to put in our boxes.  We always get carried away so we shared some of the things we brought with friends.

 Packing their shoeboxes.  Ben's was not packed with the precision that I usually do it, but he had a lot more fun.

 Getting some help from our good friend Emma.

The whole group gathered around our shoeboxes.