Prayerfully set a shoebox goal.

• Setting a goal is important because it motivates participants and helps you adapt activities as you chart the progress toward the goal.
• To reach your goal, will you invite individuals and families to pack their own shoebox gifts?
• Or, will you organize and host a packing party for your group? If yes, download our editable packing party signs.

How will you collect the $10 per shoebox shipping donation?

• By individual shoebox packers attaching the donations to their gifts
• By creating your own fundraising webpage?

Cast vision and discuss plan with church or group leadership.

• Download our Taking Operation Christmas Child Churchwide resource.

Implement the promotional plan.

• Use a selection of OCC brochures, promotional inserts, web banners, videos, photos, etc., from the Resources and Ideas Hub.
• Share OCC stories, photos, and videos from OCC’s webpages.

Review the steps of packing a shoebox.

• Be able to demonstrate how to pack a shoebox. Know what can and can’t be packed.
• Emphasize the importance of including a “wow” item and $10 shipping donation in each shoebox.

Collect and Celebrate What God has Done!

• Host a Celebration Event.
• Collect shoeboxes in a high traffic area so people will notice as more gifts are collected.
• Share your photos with @OCC_Canada, using the hashtag #ilovepackingshoeboxes.
• Bring gift-filled shoeboxes to the drop-off location nearest you, open annually during National Collection Week (the third week in November: November 13–19).