Operation Christmas Child Collection Week

November 16-23 is Operation Christmas Child’s Annual Collection week. Local residents are invited to pack a shoebox sized box with small toys, hygiene items, school supplies, non-chocolate candy and other small items that will be distributed to needy children all over the world. For more information, go to www.samaritanspurse.org/occ‎ or contact Fortune Mandaro at 9973-248-7825.

Shoeboxes can be dropped off at the following area sites:
Hawthorne Gospel Church - 2000 State Rt 208, Hawthorne, NJ (973) 427-6960

Northern Valley Evangelical Free Church - 75 Stivers Street, Cresskill, NJ (201) 569-1403

First Reformed Church of the Palisades - 2420 Lemoine Avenue, Fort Lee (201) 947-7240

Living Gospel Baptist Church - 23 W Passaic Avenue, Rutherford, NJ (201) 933-9449

Please call the individual locations for hours or see this link.