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| Boys and girls in Bagong Silangan, Quezon City open gifts sent from halfway across the globe. Twenty-four children from this group made a decision to ask Christ into their hearts during the gift-giving activity. |
Christmas
gifts in June? That’s exactly what 130 children from four poor communities in Metro Manila received right in the middle of 2012! The children are regular attendees of the Visions of Hope Foundation feeding program.
The gifts, packed in shoe boxes and just in time for the new school
year, were from the Operation Christmas Child (OCC) project of the Christian organization Samaritan’s Purse. They included school supplies, hygiene items, small toys, hard candy, and a stuffed animals.
OCC volunteers have been collecting, packing, and sending gift boxes to needy children in countries ravaged by natural disasters, famine, war, disease, terrorism, and poverty since 1993.
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Malibay,
Pasay – Twenty seven children from this
community
received
shoe boxes. One of the recipients is a boy who, Sunday after
Sunday,
attended Sunday School wearing the same pair of pants –
the
only pair he owned. Imagine his joy to find in his shoe box
a pair of pants seemingly
tailored exactly for him.
Isn’t God amazing?
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| Rosemarie Trinidad, 11, who comes from a family of 10 children, said, "Maraming salamat po sa ibinigay ninyo na mga regalo sa amin! Napakasaya ko po dahil ngayon lang ako nakatanggap ng ganito. ("Thank you so much for the gift! This makes me so happy because I have never received anything like this before!) |
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East Libis, Baesa,
Caloocan.-- Thirty three children who
consistently
attend the
twice-a-week feeding program here
received
shoe boxes on June 2, 2012.
Each
time they come for a meal, the children sing
songs,
play a game and listen to a Bible story.
The story they listened to this day was
Jesus Calms the Storm from Luke 8.
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In Taguig
City, 50 shoeboxes were ready for distribution, but because of heavy rains and flooding, only 21 children made it to the CCT Community
Center. Later in the day, CCT staff, volunteer workers, and
senior members of the Brigada Bata (Children’s Brigade) delivered the gifts to
the homes of the children who could not come to the community center.
As a result of the gift
giving, many grateful parents have opened their homes for Bible study.
