00719nam a22000977a 4500020001800000100002100018245003000039260003100069490000500100650051600105  a97814336799951 aGraham, Franklin00aOperation Christmas Child  bB&H Publishing Groupc20130 a 4aIt was a simple idea that became the worldwide outreach of Operation Christmas Child-a project of Samaritan's Purse-to minister to children in war-torn and famine-stricken countries. In just two decades it has inspired everyday people to provide more than 100 million gift-filled shoeboxes to needy children in 130 countries. This book weaves the moving, God-saturated story of the ministry's beginning with the soul-stirring, Christ exalting stories of lives that have been forever changed by a simple shoebox.