Today is Packing Party Eve--again. But they're not my Operation Christmas Child packing parties. I'm not responsible or in charge. Tonight my only job is to pray and I'm taking that seriously.
This is my favorite time of my Operation Christmas Child year. It's too late to be feeling guilty about not making phone calls or doing more to promote the project. It's just time to pray and watch God bring in the harvest.
But for a lot of my Operation Christmas Child friends around the country this is a big weekend for packing parties.
I'm excited to travel a couple hours south to volunteer as my friend Jim Urban and his team pack 12,000 boxes. I can't wait to share their excitement as God shows up again in amazing ways.
A few more hours south of that will be another 12,000 box packing party at Shannon Krater's church and over in Maryland Jeff Mauler will be working with a team for the second weekend in a row to add another 7,000 to last weekend's 7,000+ packed shoeboxes.
Down in Florida my Facebook OCC friend, Sindia Perez, is trusting God to do something I can't even imagine. Sindia was given a great donation by a church TWO DAYS AGO with instructions to buy items to pack as many shoeboxes as possible at a packing party tomorrow.
I would be so overwhelmed by that challenge, but Sindia stepped right up and made her 48-hour plan and now she's watching our awesome God meet her every need. She's planning for 850 shoeboxes but I'm praying for 1200 and waiting to see what God will do.
In my own area, Meadville Alliance Church starts their first-time packing party at 10:00 am tomorrow with the goal of packing 400 boxes.
Won't you pray with me for these (and other) packing parties that are happening around our country. Each of those boxes represents one more precious child who will know God's love.
This is the kind of Packing Party Eve that I live (and pray) for.
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