Bible Fellowship Church (BFC) is serving as a Relay Collection Center for Operation Christmas Child. Operation Christmas Child is an effort to provide disadvantaged boys and girls around the world with a shoebox full of fun and practical gifts, as well as information about how they might have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Operation Christmas Child is sponsored by Samaritan's Purse, a world-wide charitable organization dedicated to spreading the Gospel of Christ through various disaster relief efforts and projects of mercy, and is operated by Franklin Graham.
BFC is located about one mile north of Walmart in Greenville, at 7757 Greenville-Celina Road, just off US 127. Relay Collection week is November 18th-25th. Drop-off times are: 18th-21st: 6-8pm; 22nd: 6:30-8:30pm; 23rd: 10am- noon; 24th: 1-3pm; and Monday the 25th from 9-11am.If you are bringing a large number of shoe boxes you might want to call ahead.
For more information about how to participate, contact Scott and Merrhya Knoop at 547-6189, or the BFC Church Office at 547-1952. Additional information about Operation Christmas Child and Samaritan's Purse is available on the web at www.samaritanspurse.org or at 1-800-353-5949. Information about Bible Fellowship Church is available at www.biblefellowship.com.
