Hibben serves as the East Cooper Relay Center where local volunteers are collecting simple shoe box gifts personally packed by children, families, and individuals here in our area.  From South Carolina, the shoe box gifts will be sorted and sent using whatever means necessary—sea containers, trucks, buses, trains, airplanes, helicopters, boats, camels, even dog sleds—to reach suffering children around the world.

RIGHT NOW you can join the effort to help the world’s largest Christmas project hand-deliver some 8 million gift-filled shoe boxes to children in more than 90 countries suffering from natural disaster, war, terrorism, disease, famine, and poverty.

National Collection Week

is November 15 - 22, 2010

HOW CAN YOU GET INVOLVED?

PREPARE
—Enlist families, churches, scout troops, community groups and businesses to take part in creating shoe box gifts for needy children worldwide.

PACK
—Fill shoe boxes with school supplies, toys, necessity items, candy and a letter of encouragement. Step-by-step shoe box packing instructions are available at http://www.samaritanspurse.org.

PROCESS
-Sign up to join Operation Christmas Child volunteers at the Hibben UMC Relay center as part of the effort to prepare millions of shoe box gifts for delivery to underprivileged kids on six continents.

Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child, a project of international Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse headed by Franklin Graham, has delivered more than 61 million gift-filled shoe boxes to needy children in some 130 countries.

 For more information on how to participate in Operation Christmas Child, call (800) 788-5124 or visit www.samaritanspurse.org.

For more information about how to participate with Operation Christmas Child at Hibben, contact Pam Thesing at (843)343-8444.

To become a year round OCC volunteer in our local area, contact Jennifer Roberts at (843)270-1161 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .