This
year, both of our TWO huge freight trucks of “Operation Christmas Child” shoebox
gifts and literature arrived on a Saturday afternoon/evening within four hours
of each other. It was time to jump into
action! (We wait on call the whole month of December for the trailers to
arrive, because we never know the date or hour, but have to be ready to drop
everything to unload them immediately).
Now,
how would we recruit volunteers for heavy-lifting at 8pm on a Saturday night? To our surprise, upon calling churches to
inform them of the trucks arrival, almost 60 people joined for the long,
exhausting unloading process- which lasted until 2am in the morning!!
Somehow,
the Lord multiplied our space, and both freight truckloads of materials fit
into our storage area! Seeing the rows
and rows of shoebox gifts, Gospel booklets, New Testament,
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