Wednesday, November 2, 2022

A Letter from Our Operation Christmas Child Drop-Off Team Leader!


Greetings, Church Family!

 

We are less than two weeks away from the start of National Collection Week for Operation Christmas Child (November 14th-21st). With upheaval in our world locally and globally, children are in need more than ever to hear the Good News and experience the Great Joy of Jesus Christ...and, if you feel called, you can be a part of that global effort right here in St. Mary's County.

 

If you are interested in helping as we undertake our fourth year as a Drop-Off location at Pax Pres, please keep reading! 

 

Our Schedule

Please let me know if you (or your youth/teens) are available to help during any of the following shifts:

Monday, November 14th – 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Tuesday, November 15th – 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Wednesday, November 16th – 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Thursday, November 17th – 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Friday, November 18th – 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Saturday, November 19th – 8:00-10:00 a.m.

Sunday, November 20th – 12:00-2:00 p.m.

Monday, November 21st - 8:30-10:30 a.m. (UHaul Driver: Robert Hardin)


Some of you have already let me know your availability and I have you on the schedule. Once the schedule is filled, I'll send it out, along with more specific information and this year's game plan.

 

How can you help?

The ultimate goal of the Drop-Off is to collect, count, and carton shoeboxes from community donors, while thoughtfully engaging every visitor in a transformational manner. For each shift, we need greeters, paperwork-ers, and cartoners. Some shifts are very quiet and some are pure mayhem, but your willingness to serve during both the calm and the chaos is much appreciated.  

 

Who can volunteer?

ANYONE - youth helpers to seniors! Supervised youth of any age can be of service alongside a parent, but youth should be 13 or older to serve without a parent. Service hour letters will be provided for our middle and high school volunteers. For our more "seasoned" volunteers, we have less physically demanding jobs for you and would love to have your help, experience, and company.

 

Friends, last year was simply amazing. We had 29 volunteers put in 146.5 hours of time at our Drop-Off, where we handled 2,352 shoeboxes. That's 2,532 gospel opportunities starting on their journey from our back door! I'm excited to work with you and to watch God work through Patuxent Presbyterian Church during National Collection Week!

 

Susan McKinley

Drop-Off Team Leader

Operation Christmas Child Southern Maryland Area Team 

Contact: churchoffice@paxpres.org 

 

Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them,

for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”

- Mark 10:14


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