Forks Church OCC

09/18/2026

The current shoebox count is at 430!
We would like to meet our goal of 600!
We could use a few more WOW items for 5-9 boys and girls. Barbies, hot wheels, action figures, etc. if you would like to donate!
Size 5 soccer balls with pumps are a great WOW item for the 10-14 group.
Thanks for all your support in this ministry!

08/21/2026

Operation Christmas Child is super close to wrapping up for the year and we are still in need of items for our boxes 🙂

We are still in need of calculators, sunglasses, coloring books, sticker sheets and boys socks.
The older kids love lip balm and consider deodorant a “luxury” item. It just needs to be solid white stick.

Check out our Amazon Wishlist please!

07/17/2026

07/17/2026

Lots of goals met so far!!
Paper
Pencils
Erasers
Sharpeners
Cinch sacks
Pencil pouches
Toothbrushes
Combs
Colored pencils
10-14 girls socks!!!!
We are still in need of soccer balls size 5. We currently have 146 but 54 more needed to reach our goal of 200.
We are also in need of calculators, sunglasses; coloring books and socks for boys/girls in 2-4 and 5-9 age range.

06/19/2026

UPDATE:
We are 40 notebooks away from reaching our goal of 600 and 187 boxes of crayons away from reaching our goal of 400!

Walmart has crayola crayons. 24 sets of 24 crayons for $12 online and you can have them shipped to your home. Only 50 each. Great deal for OCC
Staples also has notebooks for 35 cents each available to ship!

06/04/2026

06/04/2026

Good Morning!
We are doing great so far!
We are in need of coloring books. The best ones are $1 at dollar store and I usually wait until Saturday’s to buy that way I can use the $5 off $25 coupon. Gives you more bang for your buck!
Also watch out for school sales coming up later on. We need crayons as well and they should be 50 cents! Hope everyone has a great day

04/01/2026

Quick update on OCC:

We are close to meeting goal on colored pencils. 89 more boxes needed!
Other items needed:
Socks boys and girls for 2-4 and 5-9
Socks boys 10-14
Coloring books
AA batteries
Deodorant (white solid only) boys and girls

Our wonderful ladies group currently have sewn over 261 drawstring bags so far!

03/31/2026

Our wonderful ladies group have made over 200 drawstring bags for our OCC shoeboxes!
200 and counting!
Thanks to these ladies for all their hard work ;-)

03/16/2026

Keep in mind when purchasing clothing items to buy for the high end of age group:

4 or 5/6 for 2 to 4 year olds
10/12 for 5 to 9 year olds
14/16 or men’s small or medium for 10 to 14 year olds

It would be better for them to grow into the item rather than be in too small at the start ‘