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‘Operation Christmas Child’ brings area youth together

Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/14/2018 - 1:26pm
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They see their work collecting, purchasing, packaging and wrapping small toys and personal care items in boxes for children who don’t know these luxuries as a win-win. They get to enjoy the joy of helping children in need while sharing Christian fellowship with other area youth.
Rachael Meyer, a junior at GSL High School, and her mother, Cathy, represent Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. The church on North Cedar Avenue is a local drop-off center for Operation Christmas Child. From Good Shepherd, shoeboxes will be sent to a centralized distribution center in Willmar. The shoeboxes will be filled with age-appropriate toys and personal-care items for girls and boys up to 14 years of age.
The church will host a packing party Sunday, Nov. 18, at 6:30 p.m. Other youth from First Evangelical Lutheran in Glencoe and St. Paul’s in Lester Prairie will join their counterparts from Good Shepherd. They’ll have about 40 children working to pack shoe boxes. Good Shepherd’s goal this year is 200 shoeboxes from the congregation, said Cathy Meyer, the church’s secretary. Last year, about 179 shoeboxes were donated. In 2016, 121 shoeboxes for children abroad were donated.
The shoeboxes will leave Glencoe for Willmar Nov. 19. The goal for the Willmar distribution facility area is to have 6,560 shoeboxes move to a larger distribution area in Lakeville where they will begin the journey to any of 100-plus countries.

Read the full story in the Nov. 14 edition of The Chronicle.