We had fun this morning. As stated earlier, our church is a relay center in our city for Operation Christmas Child. This was truck loading day. The shoeboxes are packed in cartons and loaded into a semi's trailer. They are then driven to one of the national processing centers. Guesstimates indicate that almost 10,000 shoeboxes would be loaded today(I'd posted 5000, but the director told me yesterday it was closer to 10K)! Carter worked like a muscle man. Really, everyone got into it.
Here is Hudson "helping" our youth pastor tape a carton.
Abby was a great helping packing the cartons. You must place a minimum of 14 shoeboxes in each carton. Speaking from experience, pllleeease, do not buy great big or irregular boxes, they are impossible to pack! And just in case anyone was having a tiny coronary event looking at the shopping basket at church and wondering if we swiped it, no worries, someone dumped it a while back and the workers were returning it to the store later. Sure came in handy ;)
And here is Dillon, making sure the carton has a number in the designated corner, indicating how many shoeboxes were in it. We found out that the processing center where this truckload of boxes are heading to will be sending the treats to several countries, including South Africa!! What a great and exciting idea to think that we just might be loading up a child's gift to go the the slum in South Africa were Mike visited last March AND where we are praying and talking through Carter going this Spring Break.
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