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We have a Shoebox Filling Extravaganza on Saturday 14th November from 10.00am
and a Special Shoebox All Age Worship Service on Sunday 15th November at 10.45am
From September to November we collect different items every month, such as toiletries, pens and pencils and woollens! At our family Harvest Celebration in October we collect a 'Harvest of Sweets' for our shoeboxes. Some of our church family also help out at the warehouses in Woodford and Chelmsford as well as taking assemblies at schools as well as other community organisations (If you would like someone from Emmanuel to come and share the work of OCC with your group, please contact the church office and we'd be delighted to do so).
Operation Christmas Child is an annual project enables caring individuals, families, schools, churches, businesses, and other organisations to fill ordinary shoe boxes with small toys, school supplies, sweets, and other gifts for needy children around the world. Operation Christmas Child sends a message of hope and 'Love In A Box' to children around the world through gift-filled shoe boxes.
Since Operation Christmas Child was founded by Dave Cooke in North Wales in 1990, the project has brought the joy of Christmas to more than 47 million boys and girls throughout the world. Operation Christmas Child is now the world's largest children's Christmas project. Last year OCC (as it is known) sent 1.24 million shoe boxes from the UK to children in hospitals, orphanages, Internally Displaced Persons camps, homeless shelters and impoverished neighbourhoods. If you would like to know more about Operation Christmas Child, please go to www.samaritanspurse.uk.com
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