Another year for Operation Christmas Child is in the books for West Central Louisiana. Thanks for all the donors including schools, businesses, Northwestern State University, churches, groups, and individuals.
West Central La totals were as follows:
Martin Baptist
Red River drop off 2,429
First Baptist Winnfield
Winn Parish 3,090
Calvary Baptist Church. 1,836
Mitchell Baptist Church 803
Sabine Parish 2639
First Baptist Robeline 1,926
First Baptist Church Natch. 6,370
Natchitoches Parish 8 296
Grand total for West Central LA
16,454 shoeboxes
1,089 Cartons
4 trailers
113 Volunteers
Operation Christmas Child organizers want to give a special praise to ALL the donors. What a special feeling to know you gave a gift to a child that has NEVER had a gift and shared the gospel with a child. One shoebox affects 10 people. Thank you.
Big thanks to all the workers that volunteered their time, their effort and their strength to load the four trailers. Shout outs to Theta Chi (NSU and Van Erickson), the Natchitoches Central High School Baseball team and Ragan Kaufman, the St. Mary’s football team and Coaches Aaron York and Marty Dewees. Amy Cross did an efficient job of organizing the boys to come load the trailers.
This year at the collection center we had volunteers to come and work from the parish. They learned how to pack a shoebox, how to pack a carton, how the trailers are loaded, and what happens to the shoeboxes once they leave the collection center.
