Posts from November, 2011

  • 30 Nov
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    20 Shoeboxes = 1 Cream Pie

    Lake View Church (Camden, Mich.) Number of Shoeboxes: 110 Ben Gladhill (right), associate pastor of Lake View, writes: “This is Lake View Church’s 9th year doing Operation Christmas Child. Each year we do a pretty good job at collecting items for our shoeboxes and filled shoeboxes. This year we collected 110 shoeboxes for Operation Christmas [...]

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  • 29 Nov
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    Death of Claudia Myers-Glover

    Claudia Blanche Myers-Glover, 88, passed away Sunday, November 27, 2011, in Carlisle, Pa., surrounded by her loved ones. A greatly beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and great-great-grandmother, she cherished the 50 years she served as a Sunday school teacher and 40 years as a United Brethren minister’s wife at various UB churches in the [...]

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  • 29 Nov
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    And Just a Few More Shoeboxes

    Here are a few more churches that participated in Operation Christmas Child. This adds to the previous listings here, here, here, and here. We still invite you to tell us how many boxes your church filled. Barton Road UB Church (Meadville, Pa.) Number of Shoeboxes: 15 Mt. Zion UB Church (Wayne, Ohio) Number of Shoeboxes: 108 [...]

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  • 29 Nov
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    Funeral of Mamei Simbo

    Rev. Billy Simbo sent the following information on November 29 regarding the funeral for his wife, Mamei. “Mamei R. Simbo was laid to rest on Friday, November 25, 2011, after a wonderful service of celebration and thanksgiving at Eglise De Dieu Par La Foi in Philadelphia, Pa. Burial was at Ivy Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. [...]

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  • 28 Nov
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    And Yet More Shoeboxes!

    Every year, dozens of UB churches participate in Operation Christmas Child, a ministry of Samaritan’s Purse. Several thousand shoeboxes are sent by UB churches to children around the world. We invited churches to tell us how many shoeboxes they collected. We have posted results here, here, and here. We still invite you to tell us how [...]

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  • 27 Nov
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    Still More Shoeboxes!

    Every year, dozens of UB churches participate in Operation Christmas Child, a ministry of Samaritan’s Purse. Several thousand shoeboxes are sent by UB churches to children around the world. We invited churches to tell us how many shoeboxes they collected. We have posted results here and here. We still invite you to tell us how [...]

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  • 25 Nov
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    More and More Shoeboxes

    Every year, dozens of UB churches participate in Operation Christmas Child, a ministry of Samaritan’s Purse. No doubt several thousand shoeboxes are sent by UB churches to children around the world. We invited churches (and still invite you) to tell us how many boxes they filled. Shiloh UB (Tiverton, Ontario) Number of Boxes: 413 Brian [...]

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  • 23 Nov
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    Camp Cotubic: Preparing for Another Year

    Dave Stephens, director of Camp Cotubic (Bellefontaine, Ohio), wrote on November 22: “Just yesterday we sent the kids home from the last of our retreats and camps for 2011. It was an amazing year. As the kids stood in a circle with their arms around each other, we prayed for their continued growth and God’s [...]

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  • 22 Nov
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    The Harvest of Shoeboxes

    Every year, dozens of UB churches participate in Operation Christmas Child, a ministry of Samaritan’s Purse. No doubt several thousand shoeboxes are sent by UB churches to children around the world. We invited churches (and still invite you) to tell us how many boxes they filled. Ebenezer UB (Greencastle, Pa.) Number of Boxes: 352 Daryl [...]

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  • 22 Nov
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    How Many Shoeboxes Did Your Church Collect?

    Every year, dozens of UB churches participate in Operation Christmas Child, a ministry of Samaritan’s Purse. Parishioners fill shoeboxes with items for a child, then the shoeboxes are taken to a collection center and forwarded to Samaritan’s Purse. Somewhere in the world, a child eventually opens that box. November is the time for collecting the [...]

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