Welcome to the Eric Mataxes Show. Please keep your arms and legs inside the car at all times. This is your final warning. Now here's your host, Mr. Thrill Ride himself. Eric Mataxes.

Hey there folks. Welcome to the Eric Mataxes Show. Have I got something for you? Don't you get happy when you can do something that you have no doubt is a good thing. Like there's just there's just no there's just no qualification is just a straight up good thing.

I'm helping people well. I've got my friend Franklin Graham on. He's going to talk about something he's been doing for a long time. It's called Operation Christmas Child. We participated last year. We talked about it on the air. My friend Franklin, tell us about this extraordinary thing. I cannot believe the scope of what you guys do every year.

Well, thank you Eric. It's good to be with you. This is a this is a program to reach children on the world. Let them know that God loves them and cares for them. We started this about 27 years ago. Close to 200 million boxes that we have been able to send to children over about 130 different countries.

And what we do, Eric, is a person takes a simple shoe box and packs it. We ask people to pray for the child that's going to get their box because I don't know who's going to get God does. But if we pray, I believe God will use this box at a very special way in that child's life.

We know God here's a prayer of one righteous person. Could you imagine 11 million people praying for children? You know that God's going to hear those prayers and answer those prayers. And so we pray that these these gifts will be used in a very special way to tell others about God's son Jesus Christ.

And an operation Christmas top we have families packed the boxes they can bring them made up to Samaritan's purse. We have over 4,000 drop off points in this country. They go to our website Samaritan.

4,000.

4,000. I like you to run voter and run run the voting in the next election because this sounds like like you guys have it going on.

4,000. Okay, so practically speaking, I know there are a lot of people listening who say I would love to do that. It's very manageable.

This is not some big crazy thing. So explain this to somebody who's, yeah, who's never heard of this before. What can they do? Should they go to a website first to kind of to get the information?

Sure, absolutely go to a website and here's nothing here. If a person is because of the pandemic, they're afraid to go to a store.

They can they can pack a box online. Last year we did about I think around 25,000 shoe boxes this year. It's over. I'm looking at it right now.

It's over 160,000 shoe boxes that are packed online so far this year. And so I understand the pandemic. People are afraid, but I think when this a pandemic, we don't back up.

We just march forward and do more. We're going to need more boxes here this year than ever, but our website has what you ought to put in a shoe box, not to put in the shoe box.

And the closest drop off place where you can take a shoe box if you want to mail it to us or if you're.

What is the website? Before we forget what is the website?

Samaritan's purse dot org. And then just click on.

Okay, so straight to Samaritan's purse. Okay Samaritan's purse dot org. So that's the just wanted to be sure there wasn't a different one Samaritan's purse dot org.

So folks, if they remember nothing else, they can go to Samaritan's purse dot org. But you've been doing this for so long.

When I think when you're talking about millions, I mean, tell us how many people you've reached over the last few years and how many people you think you're going to reach this year.

What this is with the good news of Jesus. These are people all over the world. Children. How many how many people are we talking about?

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