The Messenger-Gazette Volunteers are invited to join Operation Shoebox New Jersey staff pack gift boxes and send Christmas greetings to U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan and other locations ...

Bill Gray, another Shoebox stylist, said in his 18 years writing cards he's come up with about 80,000 ideas, of which 13,000 made it past his peers and about 7,000 ultimately became cards.

Volunteers with Operation Christmas Child in Florida pack shoeboxes full of gifts and necessary items for children in need in India and Ghana. The goal for this year is to surpass last year’s ...

Nearly 33,300 children will soon experience the joy of Christmas, thanks to the members of the community. ... Operation Christmas Child offers opportunity for shoebox giving Community. Dec 16, 2015.

Anyone who would like to recycle their old Christmas cards through this project may send them to Verduzco at the school, 94-455 Farrington Highway, Waipahu, HI 96797 (Thursday’s column had the ...

About 20 crewmen aboard the cargo ship Explorer had just gathered in the mess for a lunch of rice and fish when three seventh graders from a Davie middle school walked in bearing gifts.

In 2023, Operation Christmas Child hopes to collect enough shoebox gifts to reach another 11 million children worldwide, with 9.7 million of those boxes coming from the U.S.

Moraine Park Technical College is conducting a "Christmas in a Shoebox" drive to allow the community and opportunity to show their support for military personnel serving overseas.

"Thinking of you during the holidays," reads an enclosed card. "We are grateful that someone remembered us," said Nemesio Alcala, 58, the chief officer aboard the Explorer, a 528-foot bulk carrier ...