They’re shoe boxes — and some may even contain shoes. The 400 care packages, filled with toys and necessities for children in Third World countries, line the wall at Ward Presbyterian Church in ...

Tamara and Jim Young of Lynnwood are buying small this season. The couple searches for toys, hygiene items and school supplies. Every year, they join with thousands of others to send shoe boxes filled ...

A simple comb, a gift from someone in another country, gave Alex Nsengimana something to hold onto in 1995 as a 7-year-old orphan in war-torn Rwanda. “It was the very first time I ever received a gift ...

GRAND FORKS – About a dozen volunteers gathered at Valley Senior Living recently to pack shoe boxes with gifts for children in need as part of “Operation Christmas Child,” a program of Good ...

CHICO — Peach Mattley, 14, started building shoeboxes last year for Operation Christmas Child. Operation Christmas Child is a project by Samaritan’s Purse created to help children in need.

IRVINE As holiday music boomed from overhead speakers, more than 200 volunteers poured into a warehouse Wednesday to prepare as many as 1 million gift-filled shoe boxes for children overseas. The ...