Tax-free weekend / Back-to-School shopping for Operation Christmas Child

As you purchase notebooks and pencils for your children, why not take advantage of the back-to-school sales and pick up a few extra items for a child in need overseas? Before you know it, November will be here and you can pack those school supplies in a shoebox alongside toys and hygiene items. Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse, will deliver these gift filled shoeboxes to help children in need around the globe. Don’t want to wait for November? You can pack a box online anytime by going to samaritanspurse.org/occ.