Teacher Derrick Shaefer looks on as son, Hayden, carefully chooses gifts for the shoebox project.
By Sue Lewis
Children at Life Church filled shoeboxes for the Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child project for the third year in a row. These boxes are combined with the shoeboxes donated by the Orcas Island Community Church and sent to a distribution center to eventually be sent to children all over the world. Prepaid postage and labels allow for the children to know where the boxes are going to. Last year, the boxes went to the Philippines. Life Kids included letters and pictures and prayed for the children to enjoy what may be the only present they get or have ever gotten for Christmas.
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