About three weeks ago our church had our shoebox packing party! It was for Operation Christmas Child, an organization that puts together shoeboxes to send to needy children all over the world, ages two to fourteen.
We set tables up to organize the toys, hygiene items, and school supplies for each age group and both genders.
After each person went through the tables filling their shoebox, they had to get through Lydia and I who inspected the boxes making sure they had the basics; like soap, toothbrush, pencils, candy, etc. Abe and Esther then put the labels and rubber bands on the them. It eventually got so hectic that we were literally up to our ears in boxes, tape, and labels! Actually, no... not labels and tape, just the boxes, since we ran out of labels and tape almost immediately! It got so chaotic that we all ended up inspecting and putting labels on, plus we had a couple other people help us out!
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| All ready to inspect! |
This is the place where they made their cards or letters to put in the boxes.
