Shoebox Celebration
// Molly Knost
Each year, Sarah Wilder and her children, Eliza and Jack, kick off their Christmas season by packing shoeboxes for their sponsored kids. Jack is eight years old and Eliza is six.
They sponsor a little girl and a little boy who are almost their same ages. After carefully choosing each item for their shoeboxes, they lay all of the items out and work together as a family to find the perfect way to fit all of the gifts into the boxes. The last item they lay on top is always a drawing that they have made.
Thank you for sending gifts to your sponsor child, to children without a sponsor, plus our nurses, teachers, pastors, and infants.
What a wonderful thought knowing the first thing Sonelson and Riphterline see when they open their shoeboxes are the drawings made especially for them! The love they feel when receiving their shoebox gifts certainly must be immense.
Shipping our shoebox gifts to Haiti on cargo containers is a joy to experience, as God provides for our schools.
Their smiles say thank you for sharing your love and generosity with our school children.
We are so grateful for the Wilder family and for the countless others who continue to invest in their sponsored children in the same way. The year of 2020 was filled with so many unexpected circumstances. Each time a shoebox came in the mail, or a delivery arrived from a church, we were filled with gratitude. Thank you so much for your generosity and for blessing our students in Haiti beyond expectation! We celebrate another year filled with love and shoeboxes. ~Molly Knost
