Another l-o-o-ong day but so good. Thanks to Bethel Christian School we got a good, early start this morning. They brought 50 hard-working middle and high school students who pitched right in to fold and pack and cartonize boxes. They had 1,000 boxes done in short order.
An hour or so later our friends from Christian Life Academy's 5th through 8th grades arrived to join the effort. By the time all the students left at 1:00 we'd already packed a total of 4,760 boxes.
As part of our clean-up effort our team packed another 70 boxes filled with some of the awkward items that require finesse to fit into boxes. This brought our truck total to 4,830.
The youth packing party started off with a bang with a TV station film crew there just as we began. It didn't take much time at all for everyone to get into the swing. The box labeling and folding worked well, too. None of the box wall fell over and we managed to keep up with just using the boxes from the back of the worship center. We hope taking down 'the wall' will be the very last step. It's kind of wearying to carry out the boxes we just carried in there yesterday but seeing the truck fill up with cartons makes it worth it.
I hope the students who were exposed to Operation Christmas Child will continue to practice serving others and stay engaged with the needs of children around the world.
We ended the night just a few minutes after 9:00 pm with a grand total of 10,143. Time to go rest up for tomorrow's push for the last 17,000 boxes.
No comments:
Post a Comment