Loving on Dominican Kids

One of our supporters for this DR project shared a story about how she recently worked on a project that will benefit kids in the Dominican Republic. She worked a volunteer shift sorting items and packing boxes at an Operation Christmas Child processing center the night before hosting Thanksgiving. 

Through OCC and the project's volunteers and sponsors, each year many hundreds of thousands of children around the world in desperate situations receive a gift box filled with presents, both practical and fun. Our family has shopped for and filled some of these boxes over the years, designating either a boy or girl recipient. These gifts are tangible expressions of the love of God and enable kids to share in the celebration and joy of Christmas. OCC reports that since 1993, it has delivered more than 61 million shoe boxes around the globe, and 1,173,089 to the DR.

As it turns out, the warehouse where our supporter volunteered had prepared and inspected 65,000 boxes that day, and almost 100,000 the previous two days, all going to the Dominican Republic. She goes on to tell a heartwarming story of all the workers praying for the boxes and children who would receive them. 

It's inspiring to hear stories of how people give their time, talents and treasure and how those are being used to touch lives in many different ways around the world. We look forward to taking our turn to Love on Dominican kids and their families.

Tell us your stories of Love-in-action impacting the world!