Western North Carolina
Area Team
 serving Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, and Transylvania counties in western North Carolina

Drop-Off Locations!
Click here for the complete list of locations where you can bring your Shoe Box gifts during National Collection Week!

You are encouraged to bring your individual shoe boxes to your local participating church. The listed drop-off locations are for those who do not attend a church with their own collection, and for participating churches to deliver their collected boxes.

Help Millions of Suffering Children Worldwide

The World’s Largest Christmas Project Comes to WNC
Shoe Box Gifts Help Bring Joy to 8 Million Needy Kids in 100 Countries

Imagine a child who has never owned something as simple as a hair brush, a toy ball or even a pencil. It is the reality for millions of children worldwide. This year, Western North Carolina kids are working to change that reality—and they need your help.

Through Operation Christmas Child, kids, families, churches, school groups and civic organizations are playing an important role in helping children around the world who are suffering from natural disaster, war, terrorism, disease, poverty and famine.

A kids-helping-kids project of international Christian relief and evangelism organization Samaritan’s Purse, headed by Franklin Graham, Operation Christmas Child hand-delivers shoe boxes packed with school supplies, toys, necessity items and often a hand-written note of encouragement.

“There are children out there who are hurting, and if a shoe box filled with small toys, socks and school supplies lets them know someone out there cares about them, then that’s awesome,” said 13-year-old Angela Lutz, who collects and packs shoe box gifts with money she earns from baby-sitting.

During National Collection week, November 16-23, WNC OCC will staff 18 drop off points throughout the area; click here for a listing to locate the drop off point close to you.

Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child has hand-delivered shoe box gifts to more than 68 million hurting children in more than 130 countries. Staff and volunteers use whatever means necessary—ships, trucks, buses, trains, airplanes, helicopters, boats, camels, even dog sleds—to reach suffering children.

Year Round Volunteers
Are you aware that many volunteers in our area are Year Round volunteers for OCC?
If you would like more information about
becoming a year round volunteer here in
Western North Carolina, just complete a
simple contact form.


Visit the official Samaritan's Purse site for more OCC information
Samaritan’s Purse uses tracking technology that allows donors to “follow your box” to the destination country where it will be hand-delivered to a child in need. To register shoe box gifts and find out what country they are delivered to, use the EZ Give donation form.

To volunteer or learn how to pack and send an Operation Christmas Child shoe box gift, call (828) 640-5643 or visit www.samaritanspurse.org. National Collection Week is Nov. 16-23; however, shoe box gifts are collected all year.
 
National Collection Week is November 16 to 23, 2009