During National Volunteer Week, from April 15 to 21, Williston Park residents have an opportunity to join a local volunteer team making a difference in children’s lives around the world in Jesus’ Name.
Each year approximately 150,000 U.S. volunteers help transform empty shoe boxes and pack them with fun toys, school supplies and hygiene items.
Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse, partners with local churches worldwide to deliver these gifts to children suffering from poverty, natural disaster, war, terror, disease and famine. For many of these children, this is the first gift they have ever received.
“National Volunteer Week is a great time to consider how you can be a part of sharing the love of Christ with children in need around the world,” said Cecil Pollydore, an Operation Christmas Child regional director who oversees the Williston Park area. “Without our team of dedicated volunteers, we could not reach millions of children each year with the hope of the Gospel.
(Photo courtesy of Samaritan’s Purse)
Anyone interested in joining a local team or applying for a leadership opportunity in the Williston Park area, can visit samaritanspurse.org/volunteerwithOCC or call 518-437-0690.
Operation Christmas Child has delivered more than 157 million gift-filled shoeboxes to children in more than 160 countries since 1993.
This year, the ministry hopes to collect enough shoebox gifts to reach more than 11 million children in need.
