Operation Christmas Child

Operation Christmas Child (OCC) is a movement by the Samaritan’s Purse International Relief organization designed to spread the gospel in a captivating way every Christmas season. Every year, OCC collects millions of shoe boxes – each one filled by a generous donor containing items intended to bless a child in the form of a Christmas gift that they will remember for a lifetime. Every child that receives a shoe box has the Gospel presented to them. Since its beginning in 1993, OCC has blessed nearly 160 million children around the world with Christmas gifts that they would have otherwise not received.

Thanks to many willing volunteers, Brighton Christian Church acted Livingston County’s primary shoe box collection center – where individual people, caring families, and local churches from the surrounding areas deposit their packed shoe boxes before they are sent worldwide.

For more information on Operation Christmas Child, visit their website here.

Brighton Christian Church is now CLOSED as a 2023 shoe box collection center, send boxes to the address listed below:

Samaritan’s Purse

801 Bamboo Rd.

Boone, NC 28607