Church or Group Participation
Thank you for your interest in Operation Christmas Child (OCC).
Your partnership in the ministry is greatly appreciated. Below, we will outline how to participate as a group
WHAT DOES CHURCH/GROUP PARTICIPATION LOOK LIKE?
1. Pray & Set Goal
(January – September)
• Please pray for God’s guidance and leadership as you set the goal of how many gift boxes you hope to collect this year as a group.
• We strongly recommend that you organize prayer team within church or group for OCC ministry & for the children who will receive gift boxes.
• Decide on the strategy and number of weeks for promotion.
2. Register & Order Materials Online
(July – November)
• Click Register & Order Materials Online button above.
1. Submit Participation Form online and Order Gift Boxes and Promotional Material online. Gift boxes are sets of 50.
2. Promotional items are automatically calculated and provided free of charge according to the number of gift boxes ordered. See Items List
3. Choose a delivery date between August 1st and November 15th for convenient delivery. Before November 1st is recommended to ensure you receive your materials on time.
3. Promote OCC to your church/group
(September – November)
• Introduce the Operation Christmas Child ministry and how to participate to your church/group
• Show Operation Christmas Child 2021 Overview video or other OCC videos to group members
• Build an OCC promotional display and information table
• Additional resources are available online.
• Distribute “How to Pack a Gift Box” brochures to everyone within the group and introduce OCC process to participate.
• Distribute gift boxes, postcard, and rubber band to participants.
• Inform due dates to your group members
• Tell your group members how to make the 20,000KRW financial donations.
4. COLLECT & RETURN THE GIFT BOX
National Collection Week 3rd Week of Nov.
November 15-22, 2021
• Collect gift-filled boxes on or before National Collection Week.
• Churches may designate “Celebration Sunday” and pray together for the children that will receive the gift boxes
• Pack the gift boxes into master cartons (16 boxes for each carton)
• Deliver the cartons to the official OCC Drop-off Location or Processing Center.
• If you’ve chosen to collect the financial donation and individual donor information as a group, please send the 20,000 won financial donations for each gift box along with individual donor information by Nov. 30th.
Resources Videos Photos Drop-off Location
OTHER WAYS TO SERVE
Before these special gift boxes can bring hope and joy to children around the world, each one must be carefully inspected to make sure the items are appropriate. Volunteers assist in preparing these OCC gifts boxes for overseas shipment.
You can be a part of the preparation process by volunteering as a group or individual at a Processing Center! Please refer to the website for additional information.
As the Operation Christmas Child program develops in Korea, we will provide year-round volunteer opportunities including promotion, collection, church mobilization, and prayer. These are important and meaningful roles that allow both the ministry to grow and people to serve the Lord through their respective gifts.
Please refer to our volunteer page for additional details.
Your church can sign up to be an official Drop-off Location, where church/groups and individual gift box packers from your community can drop off their gift boxes during National Collection Week.
We encourage participating churches to allow their service information to be posted on the Samaritan’s Purse website so that gift box packers within your community can come to your church’s Collection & Celebration Sunday service to drop-off their gift boxes and worship together.
How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in?
And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard?
And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
And how can anyone preach unless they are sent?
As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” Romans 10:14, NKJV
