What: Operation Christmas Child

When: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Nov. 16-23

Where: Pointe Frontier retirement community, 1406 Prairie Ave., Cheyenne

What you can do:

Prepare: Enlist families, churches, Scout troops, community groups and businesses to take part in creating shoebox gifts for needy children worldwide.

Pack: Fill shoeboxes with school supplies, toys, necessity items, hard candy and a letter of encouragement. Step-by-step shoebox packing instructions are available at www.samaritanspurse.org.

Process: Sign up to join Operation Christmas Child volunteers at the collection site in Cheyenne.

More information:

Through Operation Christmas Child, the world’s largest Christmas project, Cheyenne residents are packing shoebox gifts for children in more than 100 countries suffering from natural disaster, war, terrorism, disease, famine and poverty. From Cheyenne, the shoebox gifts will be sorted and sent using whatever means necessary to reach suffering children around the world.

In 2008, the Cheyenne area contributed 2,820 shoeboxes to the Operation Christmas Child effort. This year, organizers hope to collect 3,000 gift-filled shoeboxes from families, children, churches, schools and civic organizations in the area.

Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child, a project of international Christian relief and evangelism organization Samaritan’s Purse, headed by Franklin Graham, has delivered more than 69 million gift-filled shoeboxes to needy children in some 130 countries.

For more information: For more on how to participate, call 303-745-9179 or visit www.samaritanspurse.org.

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