We encourage UK individuals and groups to send their love in a shoebox, packing it full of simple gifts to be given unconditionally to a child overseas.
The children are chosen solely based on need ...
Community Relations Team Member
Practical details
Volunteering • Longer term volunteering
Contact person
Susan Parker
#115952
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As a Community Relations Team Member you will support and encourage community groups that send shoebox gifts with OCC for children overseas.
This role requires the volunteer to be a Christian.
As a Community Relations Team Member you will share the opportunity to give to needy children overseas and the impact of a shoebox of simple gifts.
Your enthusiasm and initiative will be instrumental in the joy of the donors and will bring hundreds of children the opportunity to hear about the greatest gift of all -- Jesus Christ -- and to experience unconditional love in the gift.
You will be assigned schools, businesses, youth clubs and other groups in several postcode areas near to you, and be part of a wider area team for training and planning and promotional events.
Volunteers mainly work from home and will set their own working times of several hours a week. There are busy periods and slow periods in the year. There is no activity in the Christmas holidays.
You will mainly make contact through phone calls and emails, but visits can be helpful and you can choose to take on speaking engagements.
A phone with good reception and a computer connected to the internet are necessary.
You need to be able to get out. A car is not necessary, but then you need to be able to use public transportation. Some people with disabilities can fill a volunteer role, so please inquire.
Some types of expenses can be claimed.
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About Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan's Purse International
We encourage UK individuals and groups to send their love in a shoebox, packing it full of simple gifts to be given unconditionally to a child overseas.
The children are chosen solely based on need by a church local to them, and each child will have the opportunity to hear of the great love of Jesus.
For many, this will be their only gift and, perhaps, their first toy. For some, the school supplies mean that they can now go to school. For others, the toothbrush is the best thing in the shoebox. To know that they are loved and not forgotten will bring them hope for a brighter future.
This is an annual campaign and we use seasonal and all-year volunteers to support donors and collect the shoeboxes in the area near the volunteer.