Well...last Sunday I thought I'd finished packing Operation Christmas Child boxes for 2017. Then Tuesday brought a surprise sale at Dollar General that bagged nearly 400 more quality shoebox items--sandals, clothing, jewelry.
What could I do but start packing it up? My sweet husband headed back to the storage container today and brought me more stuffed animals and more boxes.
He also picked up the cartons I needed for storing the hundreds of items to use for next year's packing party. One problem, though. He inadvertently brought home ones with the top flaps cut off that were being saved to put things on the tables at next year's party. Not much help for storage, so we'll have to head back there to get more.
In between packing we've been making some visits to our drop-off sites. It was fun to visit our Walnut Creek site on Tuesday and last night we made the trek to Meadville, Conneaut Lake, and Edinboro. It rained, of course. It always seems to rain when I drive to Meadville during National Collection Week.
Tonight we were out in North East visiting with a new drop-off team leader there. She showed us a big bag of these neat hand-crocheted frisbees that were donated as filler items for the Processing Center. Of course I had to test them. They fly really well and fold up neatly. What a cool idea!
We've been to our new Central Drop-Off site a few times this week. I'm pretty disappointed the church insists on having the trucks dropped clear across the parking lot from their building.
They have donors drop the boxes at the trucks and cartonize them in the trucks to keep from transporting the cartons such a long distance. It's becoming kind of a mobile drop-off--not easy to minister to people that way. So...we keep praying...
and packing...
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