We’ve announced this before, but we just wanted to remind you and maybe inform people that missed the announcement the first time around. We now have the official press release for the Narnia team up with Operation Christmas Child from Samaritan’s Purse! We hope that all of you take part and spread the word. Do your part to spread the word, and share this via Facebook, Twitter and whatever other social media program you might use! Let’s help break records in the number of lives touched!
Press Release:
Operation Christmas Child is partnering with the upcoming film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, set for release on Dec. 10. Through this partnership, Narnia fans will be encouraged to participate in the world’s largest Christmas project by packing shoe box gifts that will make a difference in the lives of needy children.
In Narnia, it was always winter and never Christmas until Aslan arrived with hope. In the same way, simple shoe box gifts filled with toys, school supplies and hygiene items can bring hope to children around the world by reminding them they are loved and not forgotten.
“We’re very excited to participate in the upcoming release of the movie, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” said Franklin Graham, President of Samaritan’s Purse. “We want children around the world to know the true meaning of Christmas—the birth of Jesus Christ—and the joy and hope that this brings.”
In the third installment of the blockbuster series, by renowned Christian author and apologist, C.S. Lewis, Lucy and Edmund Pevensie embark upon an incredible adventure on the Narnian ship, the Dawn Treader, confronting obstacles beyond their imagination. Like the Pevensies, shoe box gifts will make their own incredible journeys to over 100 countries this season. Operation Christmas Child will use whatever means necessary—ships, trucks, buses, trains, airplanes, boats, camels, and even dog sleds—for the gifts to reach the neediest children in the far corners of the earth. For many children, these will be the first gifts they have ever received.
Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan’s Purse, the international relief and evangelism organization headed by Franklin Graham. Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child has hand-delivered shoe box gifts in over 130 countries to more than 77 million children suffering from poverty, disaster, disease, and war.
To learn more about the film and the Christmas project including how to pack an Operation Christmas Child shoe box gift, visit www.samaritanspurse.org or www.operationnarnia.com.
Even if I don’t enter the contest, I’m going to get together with my friends to help put together showboxes for needy children around the world. I wish I could actually be there in person to see the smiles on their faces when they receive the shoeboxes. To you and I, the things we put in the shoeboxes are mostly things that we take for granted. But for millions of children around the world, this means the world to them. If I could see the smiles on their faces, I would probably shed a tear or two.
me too!only i would sob.
My church puts together shoeboxes every year. I love to help out. Thank you for partnering with Samaritan’s Purse!
i would love 2 help!!!!!!!!:)
When can we send off the shoe boxes?