Our church organized an opportunity again this year to participate in Operation Christmas Child. All the kids got a box one Sunday at Sunday School. Meighan said she wanted to participate and send a gift to someone. She didn't really quite get it at first. She wanted to give some things she wasn't using anymore. No, we have to buy new things. Then she wanted to give the gift to someone at church. No, this gift will be for some little girl in another part of the world.
So we went shopping one day at Target to get some hygiene items (toothbrush, toothpaste--and right there by the toothpaste was a coupon for a toothpaste!), a wash cloth (we already had some soap at home), a stuffed lamb, a ball, a pencil/eraser/sharpener set and also at home I had another little toy that we stuck in.
We had to do some rearranging to get everything to fit in the box so the lid would close! We included the $7 for shipping and dropped it off at church in mid-November. Before we took the box to church, I had her sit down and took a picture of her giving the lamb a hug to send a hug to the little girl. She also had colored a page showing where we live and what she likes to do, etc. We also included our address so hopefully the little girl that gets this gift will write back to us someday. I hope she does so that Meighan can see that she really helped a little girl in need.
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