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In the southern African nation of Namibia, Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts and the follow-up discipleship program, The Greatest Journey, are helping to quench spiritual thirst. Children and their families are being transformed as they meet Christ and share Him with others.

Jessica and Innocent, two children of an alcoholic mother, lived a rough life in Babylon, a neighborhood outside Namibia’s capital. A praying neighbor saw the pain of the community’s children and, using The Greatest Journey by Operation Christmas Child, shared the Gospel with Jessica and Innocent who then led their mother to faith in Christ too.

The arrival of Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes in Togo, Africa, helped a local pastor lead a community away from spirit worship to following the Lord Jesus Christ. A Bible study began for kids through The Greatest Journey, our discipleship program, then resulted in a church being planted in the area.

Through Operation Christmas Child and The Greatest Journey, urban families on this island nation are hearing the Gospel.

Through Operation Christmas Child and The Greatest Journey, the village of Serinane is experiencing the gift of a new church.

Charahja began teaching The Greatest Journey to other children in her native Suriname when she was just 14 years old. Working with her mother, the two are passionate about seeing children reached with the Good News of Jesus Christ.

God brought about great change among an unreached people group in Benin that persecuted Christians when Operation Christmas Child gift-filled shoeboxes were given to children there and they were discipled through The Greatest Journey.

Through an Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift and The Greatest Journey discipleship program, God opened the hearts of Kevin and his family to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Watch as a simple gift makes a big impact in places where many children have never received a Christmas present before. Operation Christmas Child spreads the love of Christ in Cameroon through shoebox gifts and the follow-up discipleship program, The Greatest Journey. Entire communities are transformed by the Gospel as young Christians continue to grow in their faith and learn more about Jesus’ love and sacrifice for them.

Watch as a simple gift makes a big impact in places where many children have never received a Christmas present before.

Operation Christmas Child spreads the love of Christ in Cameroon through shoebox gifts and the follow-up discipleship program, The Greatest Journey. Entire communities are transformed by the Gospel as young Christians continue to grow in their faith and learn more about Jesus' love and sacrifice for them.

Children across Moldova are experiencing the Good News thanks to Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes and The Greatest Journey.

Analyn Elliott received an Operation Christmas Child gift-filled shoebox as a child in the Philippines, and it changed her life. She eventually became a training teacher for The Greatest Journey and now is a yearly volunteer packing shoeboxes with her church.

A graduate of The Greatest Journey in Uganda shares the story of Zacchaeus in the Bible.

Simple gifts are opening the hearts of children and communities in Uganda. As a result, new churches are being planted in remote villages, and through The Greatest Journey children are equipped to share the Gospel with others.

God is using Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes to bring children to Himself in this southeast African country. After they receive the Gospel, girls and boys like Angella and Shukuran are introducing others to Christ. Some also participate in The Greatest Journey, the discipleship program Samaritan’s Purse developed for shoebox recipients.

Pastor Jose Benitez is bringing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the children and families of Mexico’s mountains through Operation Christmas Child and The Greatest Journey.

Samaritan’s Purse recently delivered gift-filled Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes to the Village of Light School for the Blind in Togo, West Africa. Josephine, 12, was one student encouraged by a shoebox gift and, along with her classmates, took part in The Greatest Journey.

Through Operation Christmas Child outreach events and The Greatest Journey classes, children on the Pacific island of Tarawa are hearing the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Children in Mazatlan, Mexico, are hearing God’s Word and growing in their faith through Operation Christmas Child and The Greatest Journey.

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.