Canada’s 2024 Operation Christmas Child shoebox collection season is underway. Individuals, families, churches, businesses, sports teams, and
community groups are now packing shoeboxes with toys, school supplies, and hygiene items, plus personal notes and photos, to be delivered to children in need around the world.
Operation Christmas Child is an annual initiative of Samaritan’s Purse, an international Christian relief organization that works in more than 100 countries. Last year Canadians packed over 425,000 shoeboxes with gifts for struggling children in West Africa, Central America, Ukraine, and Philippines.
Thanks to the items that Canadians lovingly put in their shoeboxes, and the $12-per-box they donate to cover shipping and other program costs, Samaritan’s Purse is able to deliver the boxes to children around the world living in the midst of poverty, disease, war, and natural disaster.
Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child has collected and distributed more than 220 million shoebox gifts in more than 130 countries.
National Shoebox Collection Week is November 18-24. Canadians can also pack boxes online at PackABox.ca.
TRENTON/BELLEVILLE/QUINTE/NAPANEE shoebox drop-off locations
Trenton Wesleyan Church
274 2nd Dug Hill Rd
Trenton, Ontario K8V 5P7
November 18 – 24, 2024
Mon. CLOSED
Tues. 9:00am – 3:00pm
Wed. 9:00am – 3:00pm
Thur. 4:30pm – 7:00pm
Fri. 4:30pm – 7:00pm
Sat. 10:00am – 3:00pm
Sun. CLOSED
Maranatha Church
100 College St W
Belleville, Ontario K8P 2G5
November 18 – 24, 2024
Mon. 11:00am – 1:00pm & 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Tues. 11:00am – 1:00pm & 4:00pm – 7:00pm Wed. 11:00am – 1:00pm & 4:00pm – 7:00pm Thur. 11:00am – 1:00pm & 4:00pm – 7:00pm Fri. 11:00am – 1:00pm & 4:00pm – 7:00pm Sat. 10:00am – 4:00pm Sun. 12:00pm – 2:00pm
The Salvation Army
46 Elizabeth St
Picton, Ontario K0K 2T0
November 18 – 24, 2024
Mon. 9:00am – 12:00pm
Tues. 9:00am – 12:00pm
Wed. 9:00am – 12:00pm
Thur. 9:00am – 12:00pm
Fri. 9:00am – 12:00pm
Sat. CLOSED
Sun. CLOSED
Westdale Park Free Methodist Church
7 Richmond Park Dr
Napanee, Ontario K7R 2Z3
November 18 – 24, 2024
Mon. 10:00am – 2:00pm
Tues. 10:00am – 6:00pm
Wed. 10:00am – 2:00pm
Thur. 10:00am – 2:00pm
Fri. CLOSED
Sat. CLOSED
Sun. 11:30am – 2:00pm
