31 Days of Prayer for Operation Christmas Child - Day 7

Today please pray for Processing Center locations to be finalized and for all needed equipment to be delivered in a timely and safe manner.  Prayer is the foundation of Operation Christmas Child and is at the center of all we do!  It is our desire for every detail of the project to be covered in prayer from start to finish.  Please make praying for OCC a priority for the next month as Satan will attack our efforts.  We are on Day 7 of our 31 days of prayer journey, but it won't end there.  We will continue to pray for OCC year-around and the power of the shoebox Gospel Opportunities.  Thank you for your faithfulness to pray for the ministry!  It is one of my passions and I love what I do, almost as much as I love being a wife, mom, and pastor's wife!

31 Days of Prayer for Operation Christmas Child - Day 6

Today pray that Operation Christmas Child will bring HOPE to the hopeless, JOY to the sorrowful, and Christ's LOVE to the lost--both to the children who receive the shoebox gifts and to their families.  What goes in the box is FUN...but what comes out is ETERNAL!!!

31 Days of Prayer for Operation Christmas Child - Day 5

Prayer Warriors, today we ask that you pray for provision of the shoebox filler items through Gift-in-Kind donations to be used in the Processing Centers. Operation Christmas Child can utilize over 8 million gifts-in-kind donations a year. These filler items are used to ensure that each shoebox is full and to replace any items that must be removed that could harm a child or damage the shoebox. These items include toys, school supplies, non-liquid hygiene items, quality crafts, clothing and accessories, and more! To donate gifts-in-kind call or visit: (855) 356-0252 occgik@samaritan.org

Also, this week we are focusing on praying for Guyana and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Guyana is on the north coast of South America. It is 20% Evangelical Christian. It has 19 different languages with 22 different people groups. 9% of these people groups are unreached. St. Vincent and the Grenadines are windward islands located between St. Lucia and Grenada. They have 3 languages and 39% are Evangelical Christian. St Vincent is a religious country, but most are not related to God through a personal faith in Jesus Christ. There is a crisis of holiness, lack of spiritual fruit and growing apathy, especially regarding missions. Pray for revival and for restoration of a biblically-based, Spirit-led Church.

Guyana Requests:

1. Pray that all the children who start The Greatest Journey discipleship program will complete the program. 
2. Pray the children who receive Jesus will continue to attend church. 
3. Pray that churches will collect their New Testaments for graduation and will follow-up with the students after they graduate.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines Requests: 

   1.  Pray for the efforts to reach the outer islands.


Thanks for being a prayer warrior for Operation Christmas Child!

"The prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results" James 5:16

31 Days of Prayer for Operation Christmas Child - Day 4

Today pray for every domestic and international volunteer leadership team to have a full complement of Prayer Coordinators and team members to mobilize prayer as well as fervent prayer partners who diligently and faithfully lift up Operation Christmas Child and its mission year-round. 

Part of our NEA OCC Team with Alina Massey

31 Days of Prayer for Operation Christmas Child - Day 3

Today, pray for the hiring process of approximately 1,000 associate staff who will serve in the Processing Centers.  Millions of lives will be touched by shoebox gifts collected this year!  Each precious Gospel Opportunity is carefully inspected and prepared for overseas shipments at our processing centers.  Our processing centers are in Boone, Charlotte, Baltimore/Washington, Atlanta, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Minneapolis, and Southern California.  

31 Days of Prayer for Operation Christmas Child - Day 2

Today pray for the success of Operation Christmas Child volunteers in their efforts to develop church, community, prayer, and media partnerships.  If you would like to volunteer for a time slot to be scheduled to pray with people as they drop off their shoeboxes during National Collection Week for an hour or two, I am working on a schedule so please let me know asap.  As millions of souls of children and their families are at stake, we know and have seen firsthand how the enemy tries to impede the plans for shoeboxes to reach their final destination.  From now until the end of National Collection Week, we ask that you join in and mobilize prayer along with all of our other prayer network partners, team members, and leaders and strategically cover our volunteers, drop-off locations, and logistics network.  Ask your church to pray for OCC.  

To volunteer with Operation Christmas Child click on the link at the top of my blog or the link below...  www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/volunteer-with-occ

31 Days of Prayer for Operation Christmas Child - Day 1

Today will you be an Operation Christmas Child Prayer Warrior? Pray for God to work in the hearts of the millions of children who will be receiving shoebox gifts this season, and for the millions who will continue in The Greatest Journey discipleship program.  Jesus told his followers to "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28:19).  We praise God for how he is working through TGJ to make disciples in over 100 countries!  Millions of children have already made decisions to follow Christ, have their own New Testaments to read in their own language, and know how to share the Gospel with their friends and family.  TGJ is in 66 languages so far, and Samaritan's Purse has trained over 250,000 volunteers to teach these precious lessons.  We hope to enroll 3.5 million children in the 12 lesson The Greatest Journey Discipleship program in  2016!!!!  TWO children EVERY MINUTE around the WORLD are ACCEPT JESUS as their SAVIOR through The Greatest Journey!  Pray and Praise Jesus today!!!