SUPER SATURDAY

By now you will all be aware of Black Friday, but if you know about Operation Christmas Child you can leave that madness to others and be part of our SUPER SATURDAY.

Yes, today really was super, we had 92 adult volunteers and lots of children in to help us continue to process shoeboxes, pack cartons but by far the big job of the day was to shift 1,763 cartons, on to the two enormous lorries that were waiting to be filled.

And as in true fashion we filled the first one at record breaking speed with 983 cartons, that is 9,931 shoeboxes. Off he went, driving the shoeboxes to the destination of Montenegro, a distance of just over 2,000 miles.








No sooner was he on his way when the second vehicle was backing into the warehouse, this time a container. The loaders did what can only be described as a fantastic job and without a hitch we were all outside in the Autumn sun blessing the second load and waving it goodbye on the start of its long journey by road and sea to Zimbabwe. On this container we sent 780 cartons containing 8039 shoeboxes.


The warehouse is now much clearer, in fact there is an echo we are not used to!

It was an historic day for us. We have to acknowledge all the people who have played a part in this operation. Big or small everything you have done counts towards nearly 35,000 shoeboxes going to children who are in critical need.