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Find out the various stories about Samaritan’s Purse activities with supports from good Samaritans.

OCC Stories

Jaki and her Toothbrush

I can attest to the need to put toothbrushes in gift boxes — I shared one with nine other girls in a Guatemalan orphanage. I’ve never met my birth mother. People at the orphanage told me that she took me there when I was a few months old…

OCC Stories

Bringing the Gospel to the Himba through Operation Christmas Child

Village leaders gathered around the fire and pleaded with their ancestors’ spirits. The drought seemed endless, families were falling deeper into poverty, and the witch doctor’s promises of healing had failed time and time again…

OCC Stories

Denis and His Cowboy

Growing up in Honduras, my brother and I only had to one toy to play with—a plastic soccer ball that cost less than 50 cents. When “Toy Story” came out, we used to pretend that my brother was Buzz Lightyear and I was Woody because they were almost like brothers. We asked our parents if they could get us Buzz Lightyear and Woody toys, but they couldn’t because of difficult financial issues.

OCC Stories

Lighting His Way to Jesus

Kululu Atsiaya often felt forgotten, especially at Christmas. He knew his family loved him, but life was hard for the boy growing up in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. He had heard stories of people receiving gifts, but he had never experienced it or known anyone who had. Most families in his neighborhood struggled to just to get by.

OCC Stories

Livia and the Hairclips

Livia received her shoebox in a Romanian orphanage when she was 12. All my life I really wanted hairclips but growing up in an orphanage where we had very little I could never get them. But I really, really wanted hairclips.

OCC Stories

Church Dedicated Among Unreached Himba of Namibia

Villagers recently dedicated the first church building ever built in the Himba region of Ombaka, Namibia. An ethnic group of 50,000 scattered across Namibia and Angola, the Himba are considered an unreached people group because their population is less than 2 percent evangelical Christian.

OCC Stories

Host a Packing Party

“Shoebox gifts are like snowflakes—no two are alike!.” -Franklin Graham, International President of Samaritan’s Purse What is an OCC Gift Box Packing Party? An OCC

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