Hey guys, as the holiday season gets started here, which is just crazy how fast time goes, you might be looking for really practical ways to serve together as a family.

One thing that we've been doing for years is working with Samaritans Purse, specifically their Operation Christmas Child Project.

I'm a huge fan of their since 1993.

They have reached more than 209 million children with the gospel in 170 different countries

and territories all over the world. And they just use a shoebox, a really simple shoebox to do that.

Anybody can do this. You can take a shoebox as a family or a homeschool group or a Sunday school

group or neighborhood group, whatever you want to do, we like to do it together

as a family. You can pack these with fun toys and school supplies, personal care items, and then

you'll take it to one of their drop-off locations for National Collection Week, which is November 13th

through 20th, so you've got to do these quick. Or you can even build a shoebox online if you're

busy and you just, you still want to serve, but you're not able to do it in person. I recommend doing it in person if you can't do it in person,

you can build a shoebox online and make it really easy to do that as well. But they are reaching

millions of kids all over the world with the gospel and then getting them into local

discipleship program. So it's an incredible way to see the gospel expand disciples being made all over the world,

again, just through a simple shoebox.

You can learn how to pack a shoebox.

You can look at gift suggestions, and you will also find the nearest drop-off locations near you

by visiting Samaritansperse.org forward slash OCC.

Again, that's Samaritansperse.org forward slash OCC. Again, that's Samaritanspurse.org forward slash OCC.

Brent, super excited to have you here today, man.

For our audience who may not be familiar with you and what you're up to, just tell us who you are

what you're up to these days.

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