Operation Christmas Child (OCC) – Three Ways to Get Involved!
This year for OCC we have ways people can get involved. The first way is to donate items we can use at our packing party on October 30th to pack shoeboxes. We need school supplies, personal hygiene items, toys, and hard candy for boys and girls from age 2-14.Bulk items like packs of soap or bags of toys will be opened and split between several boxes. At our packing party the kids and their parents will work together to choose from all the donated items and make a box for a child. It’s a fun time with food and fellowship as the kids serve other kids. We will also accept donations of money to help purchase additional supplies or cover the cost ($7 per box) or shipping and shoeboxes either plastic or cardboard.
The second way to get involved is to attend the packing party. It will be help on October 30th from 2pm-4pm in the Children’s Education building. We’ll have music, food, and of course items to pack. This event is not limited to families, anyone can attend. We’ll watch a video about OCC to help the kids understand why they are packing the boxes, pack and decorate the boxes, and then pray for the boxes and the kids that they will go to.
If you are unable to attend to the packing party we have a third option. We will have shoeboxes and instructions available in the back of church every Sunday that you can take home and pack yourself. Spend some time praying about the child your box could go to and then have fun choosing items that will bring them joy when they open the box. We ask that all boxes packed at home be returned to Fusion by Sunday Nov 6th.
Once we have collected all the boxes we will deliver them to Chick-Fil-A for their collection event where they give us a coupon for a free sandwich for every box we turn it. We give these coupons to Colleen Smith to use in her ministry in Baltimore. We also get special barcodes for the boxes that give us an update as to what country our boxes went to to allow the kids to follow-up on the project.
We hope that everyone in Fusion is excited about OCC and will get involved in some way, if not all three ways.


Thanks to your generosity we have received enough donations to cover the cost of shipping 45 shoe boxes! Now it’s time to fill the shoe boxes! We’ll still collect items to fill the boxes and plastic shoe boxes to fill on Saturday.