OCC in the Newsletter

In this week’s Threads e-newsletter, we are featuring a story about Operation Christmas Child through the eyes of David Thompson, Regional Director of Russia, Europe, and Central Asia. Below are some excerpts. If you aren’t signed up for the e-newsletter, click here to get plugged in with Threads and hear more inspirational stories like David’s.

“…Working for Operation Christmas Child is such a wonder-filled opportunity. The gifts entrusted to us by millions of faithful donors and volunteers for the needy children of the world never cease to amaze me. For the past few years I have served as the Regional Director for Russia, Europe and Central Asia…”

“…I grew up in the cornfields of Dubuque, Iowa. When communism fell, my family moved to Moscow, Russia. My father was a pastor in Iowa and then became the Regional Director for a church planting movement in many of the same countries that I, now a decade later, serve in a similar role for Operation Christmas Child….”

“…I had never thought of serving children as my aim, but during seminary I claimed as a personal mission statement: “transforming cultures for Christ”. Through these past years with Operation Christmas Child it has overtaken me. I have seen with my own eyes as the local church reaches out with the gifts entrusted to them, that we simply cannot transform a culture unless we reach the children. Children are the key to a culture. Their mobilization into the arms of Christ is the hope of a nation….”