It's Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Collection Week across Canada, and in the southeast, there are three locations where you can drop off your red and green boxes: in Landmark, Blumenort and Grunthal.

Longtime organizer Frieda Wiebe says this year’s “Pick’n Pack” week at the Bergthaler Church once again brought the community together in a meaningful way.

Wiebe has been helping run the OCC shoebox store at her church for about 20 years now. But even after two decades, the purpose of the project continues to motivate her.

“I love the program. It’s very simple,” she said. “Operation Christmas Child through Samaritan’s Purse reaches the personal needs of a community, and with that, they present the gospel. So I think it’s a very easy way for me to be part of this ministry, a missionary,

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