With November here, people are now thinking in earnest about Christmas shopping. However, for the past several weeks, parishioners at Bethel Bible Chapel and several other churches throughout the Sault and Algoma District have been packing shoeboxes with useful items to be sent as Christmas gifts to children in developing countries .
The local effort is part of Operation Christmas Child, an annual international program in which thousands of shoeboxes filled with school supplies, toys and hygiene items are sent to needy children around the world by evangelical Christian churches in Canada, the U.S. and U.K. Bethel is the Sault and Algoma District drop-off point for Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. "Our church really supports this ministry and we go full tilt on it,” said Edo St. Pierre, a Bethel Bible Chapel member and Operation Christmas Child Sault Ste. Marie and Area logistics coordinator, speaking to SooToday. “I’ve been involved with Operation Christmas Child for 12 years and we’ve been doing it at Bethel for 20 years. It’s been done in the Sault for 24 years
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