Operation Christmas Child 2012

  Children in poorer parts of the world will benefit again this year from Operation Christmas Child. St Columba’s Church again supported Samaritan’s Purse’s appeal by donating hundreds of shoeboxes, filled with Christmas gifts.  The boxes were brought to church on Sunday 18 November, to be blessed before being sent on to a local collecting […]

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Shoebox Appeal 2011

St Columba’s Church once again collected Christmas shoeboxes for poor children overseas. Two hundred and thirty-three boxes were brought to the service on Sunday 20 November 2011, from members and friends for Operation Christmas Child, run by Christian relief charity Samaritan’s Purse.  A video was shown of children in Ukraine and Liberia in 2010 receiving […]

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Church Sends Love for Christmas

St Columba’s has collected 230 boxes of Christmas presents for children in poor countries. Our church has supported the annual shoebox appeal for 10 years, and 2009 was no exception. Operation Christmas Child is a project run by British charity Samaritan’s Purse.  Last year, over 1.2 million presents, gift-wrapped in shoeboxes, were sent from the […]

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