Here’s this week’s newsletter column from Steve:
I want to personally thank you for your involvement in the ministry of Operation Christmas Child. I realize that there are many things that pull at our hearts and pocketbooks out there, but there are very few that take the love of Jesus to the world in the way that OCC does. Hillcrest family, by my count this morning, there are 324 boxes at the front of the auditorium! That is 50 more boxes than we collected last year! I praise God for your faithfulness and obedience to the call to take the message of the cross to the world!
Will you join me in prayer for these boxes? Not just that they would arrive safely, but that God would use these boxes to open doors for pastors in local communities all over the world for ministry. Samaritan’s Purse (the ministry that runs OCC) has developed a follow-up teaching program for the pastors and churches in these communities to use after the gifts are distributed to children. Their follow-up discipleship classes, called “The Greatest Journey," are 12 engaging Bible lessons that are designed to teach these children how to be devoted followers of Jesus, as well as teaching them to share their faith with others. This is, in my opinion, the most important part of the ministry we have through OCC. Please pray for the children that will receive these boxes, and for the churches and church leaders that will be leading these classes all over the world.
We will be taking the boxes to the collection center on Thursday. The boxes will still be in the Worship Center on Wednesday night. Would you consider coming in for a few minutes when you arrive Wednesday night and praying over our boxes? There may be music rehearsal going on, or the room maybe quiet, but either way we would love to see these boxes bathed in prayer one last
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