Operation Christmas Child Drop Off Location - Calvary Baptist Bay Shore

This will be the 3rd year in a row that Calvary Baptist Church will act as a Operation Christmas Child Shoe Box Gift Program Relay Center. Western Suffolk County residents are can help others in need this holiday season through the Samaritan’s Purse’s project Operation Christmas Child Shoe Box Program. Calvary Baptist Church, on the West Islip / Bay Shore border, 1040 Union Blvd, is an Operation Christmas Child Shoe Box Gift Program Drop Off Center.

Site coordinator Christine Petraszewski, said this will be the third year that Calvary will serve as a Relay Center for West Islip, Bay Shore, Babylon(s), Deer Park, Farmingdale, Amityville, Lindenhurst and any local south shore towns west of Bay Shore. Last year we collected over 2,040 Shoe Box Gifts, this year’s goal is 3,000 shoe boxes. Suffolk collected over 18,000 last year with a goal of 20,000 this year. To find other Drop off centers on Long Island go to http://www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/drop-off-locati...

National Collection Week for Operation Christmas Child (OCC) shoe boxes is Nov. 16 – 23. This is the week where local churches, organizations and individuals drop off all the shoes boxes they have filled with toys, school supplies, hygiene items and notes of encouragement. During this period there will be volunteers in Calvary’s fellowship hall located downstairs (exterior staircase to the left of the main entrance) collecting these boxes and preparing them to go out to a local collection center who will send them off to continue their journey to the national collection center.
These boxes will then be sent to needy children all over the world. “Operation Christmas Child is a unique opportunity to do something as simple as packaging a shoe box that will have a lasting impact on a child a world away,” Petraszewski said.

“We are excited about the collection season as families, churches, scout troops, schools, civic clubs and businesses are filling their shoe boxes so that over one hundred million children, many of whom have never received a gift before, will receive a message of hope and love.”
Petraszewski said Samaritan’s Purse, a 503c organization, began collecting shoe boxes filled with gifts for hurting children two decades ago and two years ago hit the milestone of their 100 Millionth Shoe Box given to a needy child.
For brochures, bulletin inserts, DVDs explaining the program, packaging party materials, or for relay center info please contact Christine at 631-255-5348 or e-mail cbcshoeboxes@aol.com. For more information on how to participate in Operation Christmas Child, visit samaritanspurse.org.

Calvary Baptist 1040 Union Blvd Bay Shore Drop Off Center Hours of operation during National Collection Week Nov. 16-23:

Monday Nov 16th 10:00 am to 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Tuesday Nov 17th 11:00 am to 2:00 pm and 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Wednesday Nov 18th 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Thursday Nov 19th 11:00 am to 3:00 pm and 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Friday Nov 20th 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Saturday Nov 21st 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Sunday Nov 22nd 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Monday Nov 23rd 10:00 am to 12:00 pm