Operation Christmas Child 2025

Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts continue to bring evangelism, discipleship, and the multiplication of believers and churches around the world! See why you should help us leave a positive impact on the lives of millions of children each year.

With millions of shoeboxes distributed each year, the number of Gospel opportunities brought to the world is almost countless. Based on last year’s stats, come see how the collective generosity of churches and volunteers around the world has left a deep, positive impact on children from every corner of the world!

Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts continue to bring evangelism, discipleship, and the multiplication of believers and churches around the world! See why you should help us leave a positive impact on the lives of millions of children each year.

Thanks to The Greatest Journey, the Gospel is being spread to children worldwide. After receiving an Operation Christmas Child shoebox, each child is invited by a local church to attend a fun discipleship program. The 12-lesson program introduces the Gospel to children in their native language to help each child learn how to follow Jesus Christ and how to share it with others.

Soglo Epiphani, 11, lives in Ghana and gave her life to Christ when she participated in The Greatest Journey. She is now a faithful witness for the Lord in her community.

Athena, a young girl in the Philippines, participated in The Greatest Journey after receiving a gift-filled Operation Christmas Child shoebox. She shared the Biblical stories from The Greatest Journey book with her family, which changed their lives and deepened their faith in God.

Moises Groezinger shares how his life was transformed when he received an Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift as an orphan in El Salvador.

God used an Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift to bring a mother and her daughter to faith in Christ in the Philippines. Rosemarie’s 5-year-old daughter, Noel, died shortly after she received her shoebox. But Rosemarie knows Noel is now with Jesus and that she will see her again.

Jesus transforms the hearts of deaf and marginalized children in Namibia through Operation Christmas Child.

As God works through Operation Christmas Child to reach the remote Himba tribe in southwest Africa, they are hearing, believing, embracing, and sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Elena, a Ukrainian refugee, shares her appreciation for the Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift her daughter received when they arrived in Poland.

In the southern African nation of Namibia, Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts and the follow-up discipleship program, The Greatest Journey, are helping to quench spiritual thirst. Children and their families are being transformed as they meet Christ and share Him with others.

Through Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts, the Gospel was shared in an extremely remote area of the Philippines and a church was started. Many children and adults there put their faith in Christ and are now actively involved in discipleship and evangelism.

Zac praises God for the Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift he received when he was a boy in Fiji. Now, he works in children’s ministry and helps his church in the U.S. pack shoeboxes for boys and girls in need around the world.

In a small church in the capital of Ethiopia, hundreds of children erupted in joy as they received their own shoebox gift through Operation Christmas Child. These simple gifts have been packed to help kids in need feel the Great Joy of Christmas and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with kids around God’s Earth. Edward Graham was one of the many people there to deliver these shoeboxes, and he thanks everyone who helped pack each shoebox, which allows great moments like this to happen worldwide.