This year for the holidays, fourth-grade students at Trinity Christian Academy (TCA) collected 1,187 boxes for Operation Christmas Child, a national project to deliver gifts to children affected by war, poverty, natural disaster, famine and disease. Students at TCA filled the boxes with toys, books, notes and hygiene items.

Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan’s Purse, an international relief organization, with a mission to provide local partners around the world with shoeboxes filled with small toys, hygiene items and school supplies. TCA students have partnered with the ministry for over 20 years and collected over 30,000 boxes for this project.