Collection Week Nov. 15-21 for Operation Christmas Child
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Pictured at the joint proclamation by the Highland County Board of Commissioners and the Hillsboro Mayor's Office are: Helen Hiestand, Commissioner Gary Heaton, Commissioner Shane Wilkin, Hillsboro Mayor Dick Zink, Becky Gotherman, Ed Hiestand and Commissioner Tom Horst.
(HCP photo by Rory Ryan)
The 2010 National Collection Week for Operation Christmas Child will be Nov. 15-21 and a joint proclamation by the Highland County Board of Commissioners and the Hillsboro Mayor's Office was signed Wednesday in support of annual project.
Hillsboro resident Ed Hiestand is serving as the collection center coordinator for Highland, Adams, Brown, Clinton and Fayette counties. He thanked Commissioners Gary Heaton, Shane Wilkin and Tom Horst and Hillsboro Mayor Dick Zink for their ongoing support of Operation Christmas Child's shoe box campaign.
Operation Christmas Child is the shoe box gift project of Samaritan’s Purse (www.samaritanspurse.org). According to its website, Operation Christmas Child “enjoyed its most fruitful year ever in 2009...collecting 8.2 million shoe box gifts in 13 countries. That’s the most boxes ever – nearly 200,000 more than the previous year.”
According to the proclamation read by Wilkin, Operation Christmas Child has distributed more than 77 million gift-filled shoe boxes since 1993.
All shoe boxes are collected the third week in November – this year Collection Week is Nov 15-21. The gift-filled boxes may be delivered to the Hillsboro First United Methodist Church, 133 E. Walnut St., from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and from noon-6 p.m. Sunday during collection week.
The focus of Operation Christmas Child is ministry to children living in desperate conditions around the world; children living in areas stricken by war, poverty, and natural disaster. Operation Christmas Child is the largest evangelistic ministry for children in the world.
"Becky Gotherman has provided the depth and breadth of Operation Christmas Child in this area," Ed Hiestand told The Highland County Press during this year's kickoff event. "She has worked diligently for more than a decade, bringing the message of opportunity to make a difference in the life of a child and a family, multiplied by each shoe box gift."
After collection week, shoe boxes are delivered to collection centers, packed in large cartons and loaded on semi-trailers. The trailers then are transported to one of six processing centers, where shoe boxes are prepared for overseas shipping. Shoe boxes collected locally will most likely go to North Carolina or Minnesota for processing.
The 2010 National Collection Week for Operation Christmas Child will be Nov. 15-21 and a joint proclamation by the Highland County Board of Commissioners and the Hillsboro Mayor's Office was signed Wednesday in support of the annual project.
Hillsboro resident Ed Hiestand is serving as the collection center coordinator for Highland, Adams, Brown, Clinton and Fayette counties. He thanked Commissioners Gary Heaton, Shane Wilkin and Tom Horst and Hillsboro Mayor Dick Zink for their ongoing support of Operation Christmas Child's shoe box campaign.
Operation Christmas Child is the shoe box gift project of Samaritan’s Purse (www.samaritanspurse.org). According to its website, Operation Christmas Child “enjoyed its most fruitful year ever in 2009...collecting 8.2 million shoe box gifts in 13 countries. That’s the most boxes ever – nearly 200,000 more than the previous year.”
According to the proclamation read by Wilkin, Operation Christmas Child has distributed more than 77 million gift-filled shoe boxes since 1993.
All shoe boxes are collected the third week in November – this year Collection Week is Nov. 15-21. The gift-filled boxes may be delivered to the Hillsboro First United Methodist Church, 133 E. Walnut St., from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and from noon-6 p.m. Sunday during collection week.
The focus of Operation Christmas Child is a ministry to children living in desperate conditions around the world; children living in areas stricken by war, poverty, and natural disaster. Operation Christmas Child is the largest evangelistic ministry for children in the world.
"Becky Gotherman has provided the depth and breadth of Operation Christmas Child in this area," Ed Hiestand told The Highland County Press during this year's kickoff event. "She has worked diligently for more than a decade, bringing the message of opportunity to make a difference in the life of a child and a family, multiplied by each shoe box gift."
After collection week, shoe boxes are delivered to collection centers, packed in large cartons and loaded on semi-trailers. The trailers then are transported to one of six processing centers, where shoe boxes are prepared for overseas shipping. Shoe boxes collected locally will most likely go to North Carolina or Minnesota for processing.
For more information, call 937-509-3745.
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