Processing OCC Shoeboxes

A Volunteering Roadtrip

The Quiz Team at the Shoebox Warehouse in Calgary

Yesterday a full van load of Bible Quizzers--with me jammed in pleasantly among them--pioneered the snowy roads to Calgary in the morning. Destination: the Canadian headquarters of Samaritan's Purse. A few hundred kilometres and several games of travel checkers later, our van pulled into the OCC (Operation Christmas Child) volunteer parking lot, where we met our team members who had convoyed down with us.

After watching the training video we were able to get to work carrying, inspecting, taping and numbering the boxes. This was my second time working at the warehouse, and it was just as fun as before. Being part of something like that--such an incredible cause--working together for God with so many other like-minded people is an experience that leaves you wishing it could last a lifetime.


And someday it will...

Travel Preparations Begin...With Vaccinations.

               "Maybe I shouldn't travel," I proposed, glancing in the opposite direction of my bared left arm...the arm across which I could even now feel a cool, moist cotton ball sliding. This was it.  Years of existence, months of planning for Uganda and weeks of planning for Mexico had accumulated to bring me to this point. A needlepoint. 

                "Which hand do you use to write?" here came the voice of the nurse.

               "Left," I responded.

               "You're right-handed, dear," corrected my mom...