Several LWU coaches and athletes took time out of their schedule Wednesday morning to help load OCC shoeboxes and Sarmatian’s Purse cartons on to the pup trailers at the First Church of the Nazarene in Columbia, Kentucky. Teams represented included baseball, golf, bowling and flag football. Also pictured are members of the Metcalfe County Shoebox Mission along with central drop off coordinator Denise Fudge. Metcalfe County collected a record 1822 shoebox gifts. In addition to these boxes, the LWU team loaded 525 shoebox gifts from Cane Valley Baptist Church and an additional 1231 shoebox gifts from Columbia Baptist Church for a total of 3578 this morning.
Pastor Clay Scott and members of his flock stand in front of the cartons that contain the 525 shoebox gifts that were packed by the Cane Valley Baptist Church. Cane Valley Baptist Church has been packing shoebox gifts for many, many years. Most years members of the church travel to one of the processing centers in Atlanta, Georgia, Boone, North Carolina, or Charlotte, North Carolina and help process the shoebox gifts.
Several of the adult leaders at the Cane Valley Baptist Church along with many of the church, you put the finishing touches on the 525 shoebox gifts that were packed by the Cane Valley Baptist Church this year.
The Calvary Temple Church packed these beautiful shoebox gifts. Making the drop off of the shoebox gifts were Valarie South and Trina South.
The Beulah Chapel Brethren in Christ Church made their annual drop off of OCC shoebox gifts on Wednesday evening. Pictured are Trystal Lawson, Ernestine Bennett, Phyllis Wright, Jack Collins and Kim Goodin.
Linda Jennings and Ashley Reeder dropped by the Wheet Fellowship Hall at the Columbia First Church of the Nazarene on Wednesday night and dropped off shoebox gifts from the Sparksville Nazarene Church.
These ladies from Cane Valley Baptist Church volunteered at the Wheet Fellowship Hall Wednesday evening. They were busy, making sure that each of the boxes had labels and rubber bands before going into cartons. They are Brenda Arbuckle, Susan Smith, Connie Young, Bonnie Lawhorn, and Christine Williams.
Mike Smith and Mark Young both members of the Cane Valley Baptist Church did much of the heavy lifting Wednesday night when it came to stacking the cartons field with shoebox gifts. The crew from Cane Valley Baptist Church volunteers at the Wheet Fellowship Hall every year.
Making the final drop off on Wednesday evening was the Milltown Church. Everyone gets involved from the smallest to the biggest and the youngest to the oldest.
(Mark Fudge, Green River Area Coordinator – Operation Christmas Child)