For the past couple years, our family has participated in
Operation Christmas Child. Such a great opportunity to teach Davis and Haley about the gift of giving! And about being thankful during this Thanksgiving season. They love picking out toys and filling up their shoe boxes for another little boy and girl their same age. Last year we tracked our shoe boxes; They went to all the way to Mali, a landlocked country in Western Africa!
Filling up shoe boxes yesterday...
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| What better way to get rid of our Halloween candy :) |
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| Shoe box |
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| Candy bag going into box |
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| Davis kept asking, "Is this chocolate?". No chocolate allowed in boxes. |
This year we're also going to purchase some other cool items through the Samaritans Purse gift catalog-
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/gift_catalog/. Davis and Haley LOVED looking through this catalog, scanning the QR codes and watching video clips about the specific gifts. I think we've decided to buy some baby chicks, 'Jesus Loves Me' Lambs, and a household water filter. Cool stuff!
Gift Catalog!
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| Give a chicken |
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| Give a little lamb |
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| Give a water filter |
QR scanner courtesy of my new iPhone 4S! LOVE it!
2 comments:
great idea!
Your kiddos are so adorable and that's such a wonderful idea of teaching them how to have generous servants hearts so early on.
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