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First Baptist Bratt Is Operation Christmas Child Central
November 11, 2012
Volunteers will be busy for the next week at the First Baptist Church of Bratt during “National Collection Week” for Operation Christmas Child. For the 18th year, the simple, gift-filled shoe boxes will bring Christmas joy and evangelistic materials to children in over 130 countries across the world.
National Collection Week for OCC is November 12-19, 2012. The First Baptist Church of Bratt will be the official OCC Relay Center for the north end of Escambia County, Florida, and Escambia County, Alabama, again this year.
“This is not about the FBC of Bratt”, says Student Pastor and Relay Center Coordinator Tim Hawsey. “Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational non-profit organization that has mission’s opportunities all over the world. This is about being a blessing and bringing God’s love and hope to children in poverty around the world that would not receive it otherwise. We have gone through the intense process of been approved as a church to be a Relay Center to collect the boxes from individuals, families, and churches of our area, document and pack them into special cartons and take them to the next level for Samaritan’s Purse, and we are blessed to do it.”
Collection hours at the First Baptist Church of Bratt will from 9 a.m. until noon each day through November 19.
Operation Christmas Child boxes should be packed in a specific manner. For more information, call Hawsey at the First Baptist Church of Bratt at (850) 327-6529, visit www.samaritanspurse.org/occ, or call (800) 353-5949.
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7 Responses to “First Baptist Bratt Is Operation Christmas Child Central”
Central Water Works has boxes and all the information you need for Operation Christmas Child. You can even bring the box back to us and we’ll deliver it to the collection center for you.
This is a great program! Operation Christmas Child helps children all over the world & the US in need.
Here is the website to tell you exactly what you need and explain where the boxes go… we have been doing this for a few years now and it brings us much joy to know our gift will make such an impact on these kids both emotionally and spiritually.
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/Pack_A_Shoe_Box/
I’ve never heard of this and I’m curious. What do you put in the boxes? Who for they go to once they are packed? Things like thay
YOU GO BRATT. We here in Molino are helping too. We may be a smaller church but we pack about 50 or more boxes each year. So good luck and God bless.
Lathram Chapel United Methodist Church.
I try to run OCC evry year at Aldersgate Methodist Church. It is a true blessing to se how many folks especialy the young ones get involved. This year your can track your shoe box on line to see where and who it goes to. So please lets get started. Thanks and Gods Love.
My grandsons and I have packed shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child for several years. It’s been a blessing to me and I pray it’s been an example to them about caring and the real meaning of Christmas. May all of you go out and do the same!