Mila's story (Operation Christmas Child 2010)

This year The Heiskell School is once again participating in Operation Christmas Child, a ministry of Samaritan's Purse.   Look for information in your child's folder and in this week's newsletter giving you instructions on how to pack a shoebox and the type of items you may purchase.

I have packed a Christmas shoebox for the last several years.  Last year my husband and I each chose to pack a box, one for a boy and one for a girl.  We went shopping together and found gifts for our shoeboxes.  At church we heard a story about someone writing a letter in a Christmas shoebox for a boy.  When the boy received the box with the letter, he wrote back to the family saying that he was an orphan. To make a long story short, the family who packed the shoebox ended up adopting this little boy.