For the past few years, BCC Youth has partnered with Operation Christmas Child to help provide shoeboxes for impoverished children around the world at Christmas time.
We are committed to helping, serving, and blessing the less fortunate throughout the year and offer multiple opportunities each season (Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer)
One of our favorite has always been Operation Christmas Child. We generally have around 30-40 students participated and over 150 from our church.
In fact, this year Bedford Community Church has been chosen to be one of the distribution centers for Westchester County and our highs school youth group will be on hand on Wednesday, Nov 17th to receive and organize all incoming donations.
A shoebox is provided and our task is to fill it with small gifts to give either a boy or girl. These boxes then get distributed all around the world, especially to children in third-world countries.
What I like about this ministry is that each of our students has the responsibility to go out and intentionally shop for another child.
Sometimes, simply giving money can be easier, but also less personal.
However, when you are going out and spending your own money to purchase toys and gifts, it takes on a whole new meaning.
We will also be joining with the Junior League of Northern Westchester to provide a complete Christmas wish list for two entire families living in our community.
These service opportunities help make the true meaning of Christmas become real and applicable to our youth group. These moments help unite our students with a clear sense of purpose and mission and helps them realize that they too can contribute in signficant ways to promote God’s love and the hope and joy of Jesus.
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