By Claudia Loucks
Geneseo Current
Helen Johnston, left; and Sharon Carton will be helping at the 2nd Annual Garage Sale planned at Kingswood Church in Geneseo to benefit Operation Christmas Child. The two-day event is being held from 2 to 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3, and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 4, at the church’s South Campus building. Oct. 4 also is the State Street Market event in downtown Geneseo. All proceeds from the garage sale will he used for shipping costs for Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes, which is a $10 cost for each shoebox. The goal is to raise $12,500 from the two-day sale to help with the shipping costs.
Household items in good condition are being accepted for the sale and may be left at the rear door of the South Campus between the hours of 2 and 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 26; from 8 to 10 a.m. and from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27; and from 8:15 to 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 28. A volunteer will be available during the drop-off times at the rear door of the South Campus.
All household items in good condition will be accepted with the exception of clothes, cribs and car seats, encyclopedias, Halloween decorations, house paint, large appliances, large exercise equipment, mattresses, old computer monitors and Tube-style TV’s.
A link to a video about the cost of shipping the OCC shoeboxes is available at: https://video.samaritanspurse.org/project-leader-workshop-journey-of-a-shoebox/
Operation Christmas Child is an outreach of Samaritan Purse, an international Christian relief and evangelism organization. The non-profit organization specializes in meeting the critical needs of victims of war, poverty, disease and natural disaster, in order to demonstrate God’s love and share the Gospel.
The ministry uses the shoebox as a tool to open the door for the Gospel and make disciples of all tribes, tongues and nations. OCC started in the United Kingdom in 1990 as an outreach to Romanian Orphans and OCC began in North America in 1993.
