Love in a Box: Operation Christmas Child Hardcover – December 1, 2001

I bought this to read before we part our boxes this year and have had it laying out as a coffee table book for my kids to better understand why and what we’re doing. It is full of lots of information. I was expecting something a little simpler, this is very dense with TONS of stories and information in pages of text, but still lots of very telling pictures.

It tells how Operation Christmas Child (OCC) started in England when Romania was in crisis. The dictator was ruining the country. The orphanages were overcrowded and underfunded. David Cooke responded to the needs.

A very good story on the very beginning of what we have come to know as Operation Christmas Child.