Each year for the last 5 years our church has participated in Operation Christmas Child. This year we sent 99 Christmas boxes to children all over the world. When the boxes leave here, they make their way to one of 6 processing centers in the United States. Iowa boxes go to the Midwest processing Center in Minneapolis Minnesota. In 2008, that center processed over 400,000 boxes. This year they are expecting to process over 500,000. They process an average of 35,000 boxes a day. On Black Friday a group of 11 people from our church went to work at the processing center for 6 hours. By 6pm the center had processed 35,000 boxes and still had 3 more hours left to process boxes. The video below will give you an idea of the total experience. We hope you can join us in the future as we participate in this unique ministry opportunity.
