Your Shoebox Gift(s) Have Shipped to....

This year when Jamie and I sent out 3 boxes for Operation Christmas Child, we elected to have the boxes tracked. I got an email saying that our boxes were shipped to the country of Togo.

Having a box tracked is a new option that I think it is very cool. Years ago, we would get a newsletter with a few pictures of children around the world opening their Christmas boxes. I was left to wonder where the boxes we sent ended up. Then, one year when I opened the newsletter I saw a picture of a girl in South Africa holding a shoe box with wrapping paper that was the exact same same wrapping paper I had used to wrap up one of the boxes we sent out. I like to think that the box actually was one of the ones we sent out. My husband, ever the very practical one, said, “Other people could have used the same wrapping paper.” Bah humbug! I was so pleased to see it and the joy on her face, that I cut out the picture and have carried it in my Bible ever since.

Here is the picture that still brings me joy whenever I look at it. The box I sent is the one that is wrapped in green and red plaid wrapping paper.

After taking the picture of the newsletter article I clipped out years ago and getting ready to post it here, I noticed the footnote on the bottom of the page in my Bible. Click on the picture to enlarge it and look at the footnote. 

If you go to this link, you can watch a series of videos of children around the world opening their gifts.