(Dan Typing)
Many of you may have heard of Operation Christmas Child, for those of you who have not basically what happens is people across the U.S pack shoe boxes with toys, toiletries, a card, etc. to send off to places around the world as Christmas presents for poor children. I have been able to see with my own eyes the impact that those little shoe boxes can make.
There is a village about 30 minutes outside of Libreville that unlike the rest of the country has been very skeptical of Christians. The Church being planted there attracted some kids but really no adults at all. this village was a distribution site for Operation Christmas Child last year, because of the simple shoe bokes many kids got to receive their first Christmas presents and as a result the amount of kids attending church soon ballooned to over 100 and the church has also attracted a few adults from the village as well...including the chief! He was very skeptical of Christians, but when he saw how we loved their children his skepticism turned to trust. A villager recently donated a piece of land for a church to be built on...
And that is where the teams and I enter this story, a few weeks ago we broke ground on the donated property, we have cleared the land and on Friday should be finishing the foundation. soon after that a wood structure will be in place and the people of the village will have their own church building!
All of this was made possible because some people in the states spent $20 and put together a shoe box of goodies to give a kid the gift of Christmas, and a chance to hear about the greatest gift of all.
Love Wins.
-Dan
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