This is the
big day we have been waiting for since joining the Tlaxcala Samaritan’s Purse
team: the arrival of the Christmas shoeboxes to our state!!
Each year,
the shoeboxes are
collected around the United States and shipped to the border
of each receiving country. From the
U.S.-Mexico border, the boxes are loaded onto Mexican trailers and taken to
each Mexican state. We never know the
exact date of their arrival beforehand (due to changes in customs and shipping
processes), but anxiously await the phone call that the trailer has arrived.
On December
16th, we got the call, and our team (and other volunteers)
immediately gathered to unload the 9,000 Christmas shoebox gifts!! Wow- that is
a lot of boxes! And a lot of unloading! Amazingly, we had the entire trailer unloaded
in only a few hours. Even with
all the
sweat and sore muscles, it really was a joyful evening to see gifts arrive to
Tlaxcala that would share the Gospel of Jesus with our children.
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