On Christmas morning after all the presents had been unwrapped, opened, and assembled, I collapsed on the couch (we had been up since 5:30am!) and I checked my email on my phone. I’m glad I did because I had three emails that were the best Christmas present! They were email updates about where our 11 Operation Christmas Child boxes went.
Thanks to the Follow Your Box online donation option, you can find out where your gifts ended up.
Our 11 boxes this year got split up and when to THREE different African countries!
Shoebox gifts collected in the United States in 2015 will be delivered to 202,200 children in Burkina Faso. Praise God that over 1,026,229 children have received a shoebox since 1999, when Operation Christmas Child began distributing gifts here.
- Burkina Faso has 18.9 million people and is located in West Africa
- 45% of the population is 14 years old or younger
Shoebox gifts collected in the United States in 2015 will be delivered to 137,496 children in Cameroon. Praise God that over 539,629 children have received a shoebox since 2001, when Operation Christmas Child began distributing gifts here.
- Cameroon has 23.7 million people and is located in Central Africa
- 43% of the population is 14 years old or younger
Shoebox gifts collected in the United States in 2015 will be delivered to 80,880 children in the Central African Republic. Praise God that over 516,886 children have received a shoebox since 2005, when Operation Christmas Child began distributing gifts here.
- The Central African Republic has 5.3 million people and is located in Central Africa
- 40% of the population is 14 years old or younger
Did you Follow Your Box? Tell us where it went!
Here’s where our boxes have been since we started using the “Follow Your Box” Option:
2014 – Chad, Africa
2013 – Gabon, Africa
2012 – Madagascar and The Dominican Republic
2011 – Uganda
We got our email on Christmas Eve. Our boxes went to “a difficult to reach area”. Which means they can’t say what country or area because of hostility to Christians in that country/area, so we’ll never know where they went. But I know we prayed that they would go to exactly the right boys in exactly the right place, so I rest in that.