AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Local churches are continuing to rally around those in need through Operation Christmas Child .

This is an annual initiative to provide Christmas gifts to children in over 100 countries worldwide.

Volunteers gathered to stuff shoe boxes full of toys as part of Samaritan’s Purse’s Operation Christmas Child program.

Wayne Jenkins, a volunteer at Warren Baptist Church, has been helping with the effort for two decades.

“I didn’t know what it was all about (when I started). I just knew that you were giving a gift to some kid who never got a gift somewhere in the world. And that made me happy. That really did. That generated the Christmas spirit in me,” Jenkins said.

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