Very Special Day for Grandparents and Their Liberty Grandchildren
Are you a grandparent of a Liberty student who is under the age of 13? Then you are invited to join other grandparents and grandchildren at Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child Processing Center for an hour of imagination and discovery. This will be a learning experience for us and the children. In a very creative way, we will learn what Operation Christmas Child is all about.
Your grandchild will imagine that he/she is a shoe box! Each “shoe box” (child) will be decorated, packed, and shipped off to its destination. (If you have never heard of and don’t know what these shoe boxes are all about, here’s the scoop: Christians donate packed and decorated shoe boxes that are collected by Samaritan’s Purse and then shipped to different countries around the world. The shoe boxes are then presented, along with the gospel of Jesus Christ, to very needy children.)
Here are the details of the event:
- It will take about an hour. We should be at the Processing Center by noon. It will begin at 12:20pm and end at 1:20pm. The date of the event is Saturday, November 19. [You may want to eat lunch with your grandchild(ren) before you arrive at the center.]
- The address of the Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child Processing Center is:
2360 Pilot Knob Road, Suite 500
Mendota Heights, MN 55120
(Near the intersection of 494 and Pilot Knob Road)
Find a map to the location here: http://g.co/maps/tx9vk
- This is only for students UNDER the age of 13.
- Parking is available and free.
Only 30 spots are reserved, so it’s important to let Colleen Wandmacher (the Grandparents’ Connection coordinator) know if you plan to attend. Please leave a message for her at 651-270-5757 or email her at cwandmacher@comcast.net. Also, please let her know if you are planning to bring more than one grandchild.
P.S. You don’t need to bring a shoe box; this is just a learning experience. But if you would like to bring one (or more), here is a link to the packing instructions:
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/Pack_A_Shoe_Box/