GiveBack - Operation Christmas Child 2012

Volunteers receive instructions before the GiveBack event

What fun it was to volunteer today at the 5th Annual GiveBack event today sponsored by Life Disability Network in partnership with Operation Christmas Child-Florida. This 10 AM - 2 PM event at Central Florida Academy on Good Holmes in Orlando allows individuals with disabilities and their families a chance to give to children in Third World countries a gift box for Christmas.

The Central Florida disability community was invited to fill shoe boxes onsite with school supplies, toiletries, toys, candy, small clothing items, etc. as an expression of their desire to give back. The event included many activities to further those attending such as face painting, cookie decorating, and Christmas caroling.

Cameroon is a country that receives Operation Christmas Child gift boxes.

Marsha Hanshew, Kay, and Brittany Warth

Kay and Saundra Price

A surprise treat today was meeting and talking with Roger, a Wycliffe Bible translation consultant for his mother tongue language in Chad, Central Africa. The New Testament in Roger's mother tongue is to be dedicated in Chad on December 29.  Roger received an Operation Christmas Child shoebox in Chad when he was four years old.