Operation Christmas Child Shoebox National Collection Week
During this week, 23 locations in West Tennessee will serve as collection sites for Operation Christmas Child-the world’s largest Christmas project of its kind. The project is a favorite of many West Tennessee residents, families, churches and groups, who help spread joy to millions of children around the world by filling shoeboxes with toys, school supplies and notes of encouragement. Through these local collection points, West Tenneessee residents will contribute gift-filled shoeboxes to the 2014 global goal of reaching 10 million needy children. Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child has delivered gift-filled shoeboxes to more than 113 million chiildren in more than 150 countries. For many of these children, a gift-filled shoebox is the first gift they have ever received. For more information about how to participate in Operation Christmas Child, visit www.samaritanspurse.org Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan’s Purse, an international Christian relief and evangelism organization headed by Franklin Graham. West Tennessee Shoebox Drop-off locations are: Madison County: First Baptist Church, Jackson; First Baptist Church of Bemis, Jackson; Fellowship Bible Church, Jackson Benton County: First Baptist Church, Camden Chester County: First Baptist Church, Henderson Dyer County: Harvest Baptist Church, Dyersburg Hardin County: Sharon Baptist Church, Savannah Henry County: First Baptist Church, Paris Crockett County: First Baptist Church, Alamo Henderson County: Beech River Baptist Association, Lexington; Sand Ridge Baptist Church, Lexington Henry County: First Baptist Church, Paris Gibson County: First Baptist Church, Humboldt; First Baptist Church, Milan; First Baptist Church, Trenton Carroll County: First Baptist Church, Huntingdon Haywood County: First United Methodist Church, Brownsville Hardeman County: First Baptist Church, Bolivar Decatur County: First Baptist Church, Parsons McNairy County: First Baptist Church, Selmer Obion County: First Baptist Church, Troy; Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Union City Carroll County: First Baptist Church, Huntingdon; First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, McKenzie Weakley County: Bible Union Baptist Church, Martin
