Find out the various stories about Samaritan’s Purse activities with supports from good Samaritans.
We received notebooks and pencils in our gift boxes in Jamaica at age 8. Before this, our father cut a notebook and pencil in half so we’d have school supplies…
A 94-year-old woman in Florida packs Operation Christmas Child gift boxes for children in need as a tangible expression of God’s love. She encourages others to get involved too!
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…
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…
Boys and girls who live more than an hour outside of Ulaanbaatar experience God’s love through gift-filled OCC boxes sent from Korea. Over the past
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.
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.
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.
Highways leading out of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital city, continue east for many miles as far as the city of Chinggis. From there, the roads diminish to mere gravel paths that stretch across the vast pasturelands of Khenti Province.
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.
“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
In the winter of 2020, about 30 churches and schools in South Korea participated in making gift boxes and Samaritan’s Purse collected about 3,000 gift
Samaritan’s Purse Korea – Disaster Relief
