Jose Benitez, a pastor in Mexico, used Operation Christmas Child and The Greatest Journey to help start a church in the remote mountain village of La Laguna among the unreached Nahuatl people.

Just after Christmas, members of the Graham family traveled to the hurricane-hit Bahamas to hand out Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes filled with gifts. The Gospel was shared as children learned about the Lord Jesus Christ, the greatest gift of all.

Eight-year-old Votey lives in a slum in Cambodia, but says she felt "loved by God" when she received a gift-filled Operation Christmas Child shoebox and was able to celebrate the joy of Christmas.

Josue participated in the first Greatest Journey class in Pifo, Ecuador, 10 years ago after receiving an Operation Christmas Child gift-filled shoebox. He committed his life to Christ after learning in the course that Jesus died for his sins.

Andres Almeida realized how much God loved him when he received an Operation Christmas Child gift-filled shoebox in Ecuador when he was 10. Today, Andres is the senior pastor of a church and works to distribute shoebox gifts to children in need throughout South America.

Manny Ma shares his story of how he became a Christian at age 57 while working as a volunteer at an Operation Christmas Child collection center in Boise, Idaho.

Trinity Christian Academy in Addison, Texas, is empowering fourth grade students to make a difference in the lives of children in need around the world by helping to collect 1,000 Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts.

Veronica Miranda received an Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift when she was 13 and lived in an orphanage in Mexico. The gift made her realize how much God loved her. Now, she packs shoeboxes to send to kids in need because she knows that every box matters.

Athena, a young girl in the Philippines, participated in The Greatest Journey after receiving a gift-filled Operation Christmas Child shoebox. She shared the Biblical stories from The Greatest Journey book with her family, which changed their lives and deepened their faith in God.

Jana Ginter transformed a dilapidated granary on her Wyoming wheat farm into a year-round workshop to pack gift-filled Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes for kids in need overseas.