KLOVE packing party

I learned a lesson about trusting God today. We were diving in blindly to a shoe box packing party that could either be a real success or a complete disaster. This year KLOVE radio partnered with Operation Christmas Child and all throughout the U.S. there were packing parties going on. Of course, the packing parties can only become as big as the community wants them to; without donations, our party would have been a disaster. BUT, God did more than provide. I should have known God was going to do something great, as always!
Right at 2:00 when things were starting up, we had a massive rush of families bringing loads of things for the boxes. We had bins marked in different categories for people to place the items in, which seemed to work great until they got too crowded because so many people had showed up... What a great problem to have! We did some rearranging and for about an hour straight, boxes were being packed and placed into OCC cartons.
We were right around the 300 mark when we started to run out of fillers for the boxes. Many of the kids were coloring pictures for their boxes and people seemed to be looking for tasks to complete. We were packing the boxes in a large garage type building, and all of a sudden the large door opened. We all glanced out and you could hear everyone get silent as we all wondered what was happening. All of a sudden we saw the trunk of a truck open up and it was filled with hundreds and hundreds of more items for the shoe box!
Everyone was so excited, and we all got busy packing! We ended the night with 519 shoe boxes! Praise the Lord!
The Family pictured below had a wonderful idea; they put deflated soccer balls, pins, and a pump in each one of their shoe boxes. This is such a great idea because the ball can be used by dozens of kids, or even an entire village. Good job Hutchinson family for thinking of this!
Collection starts MONDAY!!!!