Thursday, December 22, 2011

Operation Christmas Child: Our shoe box made it to Georgia!

Our Samaritan's Purse shoe box went to Georgia.  Now, I did a bit of checking to make certain that I could share with K- exactly where it went.  It did not go to the State of Georgia, but rather it went to the Country of Georgia.  Last year, our box went to Iraq.

I always pass my box over to the one lady at work who takes it to church to put in their donation pile.  She laughs because she knows that we pack every nook and cranny full.  If there is any type of void in the box, I try to fill it.  "You put so much in the box!"  "I do that so that they can share with their family!"  Who knows if every child in the family scores a shoe box?  At least this way, the child who receives it can share, because there is more than enough.

I love that we can find out where the boxes went off to.  What about you?  If you sent a box, did you find out where your box got off to?

4 comments:

Rach said...

How AWESOME your box made it to Georgia! :o)

Alas, we did not do a box. We should have, and now I'm kicking myself...

Bailey's Leaf said...

Next year!

Felicia said...

We did 6 boxes this year. I didn't know you could find out where they went.

Bailey's Leaf said...

If you pre-pay online, you can print out scan bars that you tape to the outside lid of the package. Come close to Christmas, you'll get an e-mail telling you where your box(es) landed. It's pretty cool! I'm sure that it helps to increase the number of donations that they get, because that way, people know where there box actually went. As for me, I've done it for, well, years. I used to drive about 15 miles out to drop my box off because there were no drop off's closer.

So glad that you were able to take care of 6 kiddos with boxes this year!