I am just going to say it out front - this post is a bit of a cop out. While I totally support the idea of Operation Christmas Child, it is not to me the idea of serving for our family. Yes it can be to others, don't get me wrong, but for me it just feels too easy. One of the reasons I started this blog was so that my daughter meets those she is serving. This is a about local mission (though I am more passionate about overseas mission, discussion topic for later).
I post about this though because I do think it builds a servant heart. Not everything we do needs to be 'out there and in the community'. I think we also need to show our daughter what serving looks like in different contexts. Operation Christmas Child was perfect for that.
While I did not take a picture of our box we made (for some gorgeous 2-4 year old girl in the world) here is a picture of all the boxes we did from our church - pretty impressive!
What is actually extra special for my little girl is that her very own Auntie lived in an area for a year who received such boxes. So we can tell her first hand what happens to the box and the people who recieve it. That, in a way, makes her closer to know those she serves.
So what did we put in our box? Well since our little girl is of a similar age we choose things that she enjoys to play with. I also chose one of her soft toys to include that she has never played with. In that way she was giving something up (but it was still new like the guidelines said!)
I think as Little B gets older this exercise we will be able to use more as a teaching tool than this year.
I post about this though because I do think it builds a servant heart. Not everything we do needs to be 'out there and in the community'. I think we also need to show our daughter what serving looks like in different contexts. Operation Christmas Child was perfect for that.
While I did not take a picture of our box we made (for some gorgeous 2-4 year old girl in the world) here is a picture of all the boxes we did from our church - pretty impressive!
What is actually extra special for my little girl is that her very own Auntie lived in an area for a year who received such boxes. So we can tell her first hand what happens to the box and the people who recieve it. That, in a way, makes her closer to know those she serves.
So what did we put in our box? Well since our little girl is of a similar age we choose things that she enjoys to play with. I also chose one of her soft toys to include that she has never played with. In that way she was giving something up (but it was still new like the guidelines said!)
I think as Little B gets older this exercise we will be able to use more as a teaching tool than this year.
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