Last night my Operation Christmas Child media coordinator, Pam Niedhammer, and I were at Chick-fil-A distributing GO boxes (preassembled printed shoe boxes) for folks to fill and return next week. The donor of each box will receive a coupon for a free chicken sandwich.
We're so grateful for this partnership with Chick-fil-A. We handed out about 100 boxes yesterday and are praying to get 150 returned by next Tuesday. I had the most fun explaining the project to first-time shoe box packers who have never heard of Operation Christmas Child. How wonderful!
Our Chick-fil-A store with owner Casey Hartley and marketing director Tina Kociolek always go way beyond our expectations. Actually, they spoil us with their amazing hospitality and their excitement about the project. What joy!
And this partnership was being repeated last night all around our five state MId-Atlantic region as 200 volunteers distributed about 29,000 boxes at Chick-fil-A stores yesterday.
Will you pray with us that each of these boxes (and even more--since you don't have to have one of the official boxes to participate) will be returned filled by next Tuesday?
Just think of 29,000+ children who will have the joy of opening a special treasure and hearing of God's love--all because of our friends at Chick-fil-A.
On our way to 9.8 million boxes....
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