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Speaker 2: now with Ray and he is with Operation Christmas Child.
Speaker 2: First of all, Ray, thank you for your time and
Speaker 2: how long have you been volunteering with his organization.
Speaker 3: We've been backing two boxes with Operating Firstmas Coal for
Speaker 3: about twenty five years with our kids. So when we
Speaker 3: relocated to Two Falls a couple of years ago, our
Speaker 3: church became the central drop off point for each river
Speaker 3: South Dakota. So last couple of years we started as
Speaker 3: circulations and now my wife and I we're the area
Speaker 3: coordinator for all of each river for Operating Forerstmas Cold
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 2: I love that And this is through Samaritans Purse and
Speaker 2: again if people would like to know more, samaritansperse dot org.
Speaker 2: I'm going to throw some links to make it easy
Speaker 2: to find all of this. But you said you've been
Speaker 2: doing this.
Speaker 1: For a while.
Speaker 2: Are you looking for other people to help right now?
Speaker 2: Or where is the best place for somebody listening that's
Speaker 2: going I love this mission. What's the best thing they
Speaker 2: could do to help with the mission this year?
Speaker 3: Well, a lot of people are packing two boxes as individuals.
Speaker 3: A lot of people are doing it through the churches.
Speaker 3: Churches are putting groups together and doing it. There's corporate
Speaker 3: entities that are doing a different organization. This year, we
Speaker 3: are projected to pack over fifteen thousand two boxes in
Speaker 3: East River, South Dakota. Last year we did about fourteen thousand.
Speaker 3: We have been resentally growing our team a lot. We
Speaker 3: have prayer team members, we have church relations members, we
Speaker 3: have a logistics coordinator here. So we are in the
Speaker 3: process of growing our team right now. I think we've
Speaker 3: added about six or seven members in the last year.
Speaker 3: As you know, East River is a huge area and
Speaker 3: we've got a lot of distance between the different locations
Speaker 3: that we have. Right now, there's about six hundred churches
Speaker 3: in East River, South Dakota, and we have about two
Speaker 3: hundred participating as of now.
Speaker 2: If somebody listening would like to participate, do they go
Speaker 2: to a website?
Speaker 1: Do they call you? What is the best way for
Speaker 1: them to connect.
Speaker 3: They can go to samaritanspers dot org, clack occ. They
Speaker 3: can get a lot of information thereby putting in their
Speaker 3: DIP code. They can they can call, they can call me,
Speaker 3: they can email me. We have a Facebook page that
Speaker 3: my wife is put together. Each sver two boxes, or
Speaker 3: they can email us at each server two boxes at
Speaker 3: occ dot com.
Speaker 1: Very nice. And again, this is going on right now.
Speaker 2: This is collection week November eighteenth through the twenty fifth,
Speaker 2: so we're right in the middle of this. If somebody
Speaker 2: listening is going, hey, I'd like to know more. Again,
Speaker 2: I'm going to share that website one more time to
Speaker 2: make it really, really easy. This is not something that
Speaker 2: has to cost anybody a whole lot of money. If
Speaker 2: they give their time, that is wonderful. Or if they say, hey,
Speaker 2: I don't have time, but I'd like to make a donation,
Speaker 2: they can do that as well.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of ways to help, aren't there.
Speaker 3: There are really a lot of ways to help. The
Speaker 3: best way to do it if you want to pack
Speaker 3: at two box. A lot of people have found if
Speaker 3: they start buying things earlier in the year, they can
Speaker 3: do the box for about half the prices. If they
Speaker 3: were to go out right now and pay full retail
Speaker 3: for things, A lot of people will order items involved.
Speaker 3: You know, a lot of times these big retailers have
Speaker 3: things on sale. We had one time last year we
Speaker 3: went into one of the big retailers here and we
Speaker 3: found forty five soccer balls and I think we got
Speaker 3: them for about three dollars a piece. In my opinion,
Speaker 3: the soccer ball is the greatest box that you can
Speaker 3: the greatest thing that you can put in the box
Speaker 3: because we deplayed them. We put them in there with
Speaker 3: a pump. But what a great way to bring twenty
Speaker 3: kids together.
Speaker 1: I mean it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a it's a game that everybody loves
Speaker 3: all over the world. So that's that's probably one of
Speaker 3: the most popular items. But the sooner you do it,
Speaker 3: the less it costs. We have a lot of opportunities,
Speaker 3: you know, volunteer wise, you know, if you want to
Speaker 3: get on our team, we have we have a lot
Speaker 3: of things that we could do. So anyway you on
Speaker 3: a contact us, we would love to find a place
Speaker 3: for you. So we've got something for everybody.
Speaker 1: I love that. Ray. Thank you for your time today
Speaker 1: and thank you for doing what you're doing.
Speaker 3: And thank you for having us.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you absolutely Again.
Speaker 2: Samaritans Purse, that's who does this, and if you'd like
Speaker 2: to know more, Samaritanspurse dot org slash OCC now the
Speaker 2: OCC stands for Operation Christmas Child. And if you even
Speaker 2: just go on the Internet and type that in, I'm
Speaker 2: sure it'll take you to the right place. But if
Speaker 2: you again want to find all the details, I've got
Speaker 2: a direct link all of the information at Facebook dot
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