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 ...
Logistics Coordinator
Practical details
Volunteering • Longer term volunteering
Contact person
Susan Parker
#115957
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As a Logistics Coordinator you will support and encourage churches that send shoebox gifts and are open for the public to drop-off their packed shoeboxes.
This role requires the volunteer to be a Christian.
As a Logistics Coordinator you will contact churches, sharing the vision of Operation Christmas Child as a way to send love to children overseas and as a way to make new contacts in your local community by serving as a drop-off location.
You will consider if new drop off locations are needed and invite churches in that area to take up this role. You will recruit van drivers to collect the shoeboxes from these and other locations in November. Many will find it helpful to have a Driver’s Mate to assist navigation and lifting. This role requires strategic thinking and organisational skills.
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 churches and other drop-off-locations in several postcode areas, 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 slow periods with the busiest time from September through November. There is no activity in the Christmas holidays.
You will mainly make contact through phone calls and emails, but occasional visits are necessary. 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 necessary. 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.