Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child in the past sent an email telling the destination of one's box if one paid for the shipping online and thus had a tracking barcode.
This year I had to go to the website and find the tracking tool and input my email address. I was surprised to see it showed the destinations of several years' boxes, not just this year's box. Last year the box went to Mexico. I knew that already.
This year my box went to a "Hard-to-Reach" country; I will not know the specific country because the people sharing the Gospel might be tracked down and persecuted. The governments of such countries do not condone evangelization and the spread of Christianity. It did share some stories of the effectiveness of the boxes in these types of countries which warmed my heart. I sent a box for an older girl in the hopes that as she is married and starts her family in a few years, she will have become a Christian through this ministry and thus have influence on future generations.
My first year putting together a box I was sort of begrudging the time and money spent, but now I embrace this ministry as a way to have a part in the growth of the Body of Christ.
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