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Local volunteers are collecting simple shoe box gifts personally packed by children, families and individuals here in Crandon. From Crandon, the shoe box gifts will be sorted and sent using whatever means necessary — sea containers, trucks, buses, trains, airplanes, helicopters, boats, camels, even dog sleds — to reach suffering children around the world.

“We are excited to be a relay center for our Northwoods in Wisconsin,” said Sjana Farr, Crandon drop-off site coordinator. “We are in a remote area with small communities that have big hearts for reaching the world for Christ.”

The local collection site is at Praise Chapel Community Church at 200 E. Sixth St. in Crandon, which is open Monday, Nov. 17 through Saturday, Nov. 22 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 23 from 1 to 8 p.m.

Right now you can join the effort to help the world’s largest Christmas project hand-deliver some eight-million gift-filled shoe boxes to children in more than 90 countries suffering from natural disaster, war, terrorism, disease, famine and poverty.

What you can do to get involved:

• Prepare — Enlist families, churches, scout troops, community groups and businesses to take part in creating shoe box gifts for needy children worldwide.

• Pack — Fill shoe boxes with school supplies, toys, necessity items, candy and a letter of encouragement. Step-by-step shoe box packing instructions are available at www.samaritanspurse.org.

• Process — Sign up to join Operation Christmas Child volunteers at collection sites in Crandon as part of the effort to prepare millions of shoe box gifts for delivery to underprivileged kids on six continents.

Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child, a project of international Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse headed by Franklin Graham, has delivered more than 61 million gift-filled shoe boxes to needy children in some 130 countries.

For more information on how to participate in Operation Christmas Child, call (612) 359-7025 or visit www.samaritanspurse.org. National Collection Week is Nov. 17 through 24.

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