September 16, 2013
St John’s Lutheran School has hosted the South Burnett launch of “Operation Christmas Child”, a project which aims to provide small gifts to children who live in poverty.
The project, run by Samaritan’s Purse, involves schools and churches in the South Burnett and throughout Australia.
The Queensland director of Samaritan’s Purse, Mr Trevor Morris, came to the school last week for the launch.
St John’s has participated in “Operation Christmas Child” for the past nine years.
Shoebox-sized boxes are filled with small gifts to send to children who live in poverty in time for Christmas.
The gifts include something to love, something to wear and to play with, and things for school and for personal hygiene.
Often the shoe boxes are the first time the children have received a gift.
Families for St John’s school have been invited to participate in this unique project once again and many attended the launch.
Mrs Naomi Kotzur and Miss Mel Cox, two teachers at St John’s, have been involved in this ministry for many years.
They have spent their personal time making cards and selling them to school families and at local markets on the weekends and have raised about $700 from the project which will go towards the postage of the boxes to the identified countries.
The Live It! Youth Group of Year 6 and 7 students will spend one evening packing the shoe boxes in preparation for the delivery to a Brisbane warehouse.
Students who are participating in the Bridge Award for the Duke of Edinburgh program will be able to allocate this activity as part of their service section of the award program.
The theme for school worship this year is “Mission Possible: Care, Share, Repair” and the opportunity to fill a shoebox with gifts is a great example of caring and sharing.
The staff and children at St John’s look forward to sharing with the wider South Burnett community how many boxes they have filled by mid-October.
[Photos: St John’s Lutheran School]
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