Yep, it's 1:00 am and my mind's wide awake and ready to translate the cause. Translating the cause is one of the high impact principles we use in leadership in Operation Christmas Child. There are no menial tasks in the Kingdom. Everything you do for the Lord has eternal value.
And packing parties are full of tasks that might seem menial unless you look at them for the high calling they are.
I mean--what could be a higher calling than bringing God's love to kids around the world. And how will they get to know that love unless someone tells them? And how will they tell them without a tangible way to show them? (enter those shoebox gifts) And how will they get the gifts unless we pack them? And how will we pack them without boxes to put them in? And how will we have boxes to put them in unless someone folds those boxes?
See this hallway filled with boxes? Well, we're going to be folding these boxes again this year. We won't get those 27,500 flat boxes that need to be folded until Monday, September 18th and we're praying to have at least 13,000 of them folded by Friday, September 22nd. These boxes are sturdier than the pop-up ones we've used the last four years and will be better for the children to store the items they receive.
So...we're looking for people who are called to serve God by folding boxes. And...we're also looking for people who are called to serve God by packing boxes.
Our volunteer numbers have fallen the past two years to about half of what we'd had previously--last year we had just 360 packers compared to 650 in 2012. God has still allowed us to accomplish the work at the packing parties but with all this folding to do....well, I'm praying He's calling more people in our community to join us.
Will you mark your calendar and ask God to help you clear some time to make a difference for children around the world?
Check out our Facebook event by clicking here or just email me at jschriefer@neo.rr.com to get more details.
You are definitely called...
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