MAYFIELD – (KT) The little boy from a straw-roofed home in rural south India didn’t have much. But when Anvesh Kumar opened his first Operation Christmas Child shoebox, more than toys spilled out. God was writing a story with his life that would eventually take him to Mayfield, Kentucky. The gift he received would become the gift he gave.

Kumar was about 6 when he was gifted his first shoebox from a church 18 miles from his village. Although his father was not a Christian, he brought his family there on Christmas Eve for the distribution.

“This shoebox was shared between my brother and me,” Kumar explained. “When we opened the shoebox, it was full of wonderful gifts like a chewing gum roll, socks, stationery items, balls, our first-ever Matchbox Car, and a bouncy ball that my brother an

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