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Photos from 2015's Operation Christmas Child:

Volunteers: 200. Total Hours donated: 339, for OCC at Wheet (Photo ID: 63368)
An amazing 200 volunteers donated 339 hours at the Wheet Fellowship Hall alone this week. This group of Individuals from LWC loaded the final ca... (click photo title to read more)

Collection week for Operation Christmas Child is completed (Photo ID: 63366)
Collection week ended today, Monday, November 23, 2015. - Mark Fudge... (click photo title to read more)

Last delivery by Stella Grace and Montomery Cato (Photo ID: 63365)
Stella-Grace and Montgomery Cato made the final delivery of the day at the Wheet Fellowship today. The official number of OCC boxes in Adair Count... (click photo title to read more)

LWC's Keegan Kendrick, Danville, KY helps with finish up (Photo ID: 63364)
Lindsey Wilson College student Keegan Kendrick of Danville, Kentucky places the final few OCC boxes into cartons before they are loaded onto truc... (click photo title to read more)

The Warren children deliver OCC boxes on last day of drive (Photo ID: 63358)
Elijah, Faith, and Isaiah Warren delivered their Operation Christmas Child boxes at the OCC drop off at the Wheet Fellowship Hall, Mon 23 Nov 2015... (click photo title to read more)

One year old gets involved in Operation Christmas Child (Photo ID: 63356)
One year old Lucy Brooke Ford wanted to get involved in the operation Christmas child program. Pictured holding Lucy Brooke is church relations di... (click photo title to read more)

Melson Ridge SBC last church to deliver 2015 OCC boxes (Photo ID: 63355)
The final church delivery was received from the Melson Ridge Separate Baptist Church on Monday morning, November 23, 2015. Pictured delivering the... (click photo title to read more)

Glens Fork UMC delivers OCC packages (Photo ID: 63353)
The Glens Fork United Methodist Church have become regular participants in the Operation Christmas Child program. Pictured with the churches boxe... (click photo title to read more)

Columbia UMC church delivers again for OCC (Photo ID: 63352)
The Columbia United Methodist Church once again participated in the operation Christmas child program. Pictured are youth minister Landon Harting ... (click photo title to read more)

Bro. Bobby Withers delivers Living by Faith Boxes (Photo ID: 63351)
Pastor Bobby Withers of the Living By Faith Church made a delivery of OCC boxes to the Wheet Fellowship hall at the Columbia Churchof the Nazarene ear... (click photo title to read more)

Bodie Lewis is youngest donor to OCC (Photo ID: 63347)
Bodie Lewis was the first person to drop off OCC boxes at the Wheet Fellowship Hall this morning, Mon 23 Nov 2015. Bodie is only 2 years old. ... (click photo title to read more)

Volunteer Joshua Laws, Ludlow, KY, helps pack cartons (Photo ID: 63340)
Volunteer Joshua Laws of Ludlow Kentucky and also a student at Lindsey Wilson College could hardly keep his work caught up as he placed boxes into... (click photo title to read more)

Colton Parnell delivers last box of day on Sun, 21 Nov 2015 (Photo ID: 63339)
Colton Parnell delivered the last box of the day on Sunday afternoon. Colton said, "The children in other countries don't have Christmas like we... (click photo title to read more)

Gracie Morrison, Sparksville Baptist, puts OCC past goal of 3,000 (Photo ID: 63337)
It was only appropriate that a small child bring in the 3000th box at the relay center at the Wheet Fellowship Hall. Gracie Morrison of the Sparks... (click photo title to read more)

Eunice Church of God puts OCC drive within 16 boxes of goal (Photo ID: 63336)
The Eunice Chapel Church of God left Adair County just 16 boxes short of their goal of 3,000. Pictured are Jamika Payne and George Payne. Mar... (click photo title to read more)

Bloomington Chapel delivery brings OCC to over 2950 (Photo ID: 63335)
The delivery of boxes from the Bloomington Chapel Church brought the Adair County total to over 2950. Pictured is Connie Kemp. There's still time... (click photo title to read more)

Tyler and Seth Murphy bring special boxes to OCC Relay Center (Photo ID: 63334)
Tyler and Seth Murphy were all smiles as they delivered their boxes to the Relay Center, Sunday afternoon.Seth said, "I want to help children hav... (click photo title to read more)

Sparksville Church of the Nazarene delivers OCC boxes to Wheet (Photo ID: 63333)
Ashley Reeder and Angel Burton delivered Operation Christmas Child boxes for the Sparksville Church of the Nazarene. Each delivery today sets a ne... (click photo title to read more)

Christie Chapel UMC pushes record even higher (Photo ID: 63332)
Barbara Abell makes a delivery for the Christie Chapel United Methodist Church to Wheet Hall for the 2015 Operation Christmas Child drive. Every d... (click photo title to read more)

Trinity pushes OCC at Wheet past 2900 boxes - a new record (Photo ID: 63331)
Beth Boisvert delivers the boxes for the Trinity United Methodist church. With their delivery Adair County now has collected more than 2900 OCC bo... (click photo title to read more)

Columbia Christian boxes push OCC at Wheet into new record (Photo ID: 63330)
Columbia Christian Church boxes put OCC at Wheet relay past 2015 record of 2,802 boxes. The CCC delivery came today, Sunday, November 22, 2015, b... (click photo title to read more)

Linda Walker delivers Harrods Fork Baptist OCC boxes to Wheet (Photo ID: 63326)
Linda Walker delivered Operation Christmas Child boxes from the Harrodsburg Fork Baptist Church on Saturday, November 21, 2015, to the Wheet Hall ... (click photo title to read more)

Egypt Christian packing party for Operation Christmas Child (Photo ID: 63325)
The Egypt Christian Church was one of many churches that recently held a packing party. Pictured are Audrey Young, Jadie Smith, Brody Blair, Gavin... (click photo title to read more)

LWC students volunteers pack boxes for OCC (Photo ID: 63307)
Lindsey Wilson College students Danny Humphrey Burkesville, KY; Samantha Ballou Columbia, KY; Austin Grigsby Stanford, KY; and Daniel Pitman Som... (click photo title to read more)

A special delivery from My Father's House Youth Group to OCC (Photo ID: 63291)
Operation Christmas Child Received a special Deliverly from My Fathers House Youth Group. Pictured are Wesley Young and Kailey Young. - Mark... (click photo title to read more)

Debra Wimmer brings boxes for Operation Christmas Child (Photo ID: 63284)
Debra Wimmer makes her delivery of OCC boxes. The total for Adair County currently stands at slightly over 2,600 with 3 days of collections remain... (click photo title to read more)

Cane Valley Christian Church delivers OCC boxes to Wheet (Photo ID: 63283)
Cane Valley Christian Church delivered their operation Christmas child boxes Friday afternoon pushing the countywide total to over 2600 boxes. Pic... (click photo title to read more)

LWC Upward Bound pushes OCC over 2,500! (Photo ID: 63271)
A milestone was reached last night. Corey Allen delivered Operation Christmas Child boxes from the LWC Upward Bound Program. Upward Bound's deliv... (click photo title to read more)

Jackie Hinebaugh delivers Melson Ridge UBC Christmas Boxes (Photo ID: 63269)
Jackie Hinebaugh delivered Operation Christmas Child boxes from Melson Ridge United Baptist Church to the OCC Relay Station at Wheet Hall last ni... (click photo title to read more)

Russell Heights Baptist delivers Wheet Hall OCC relay station (Photo ID: 63267)
Russell Heights Baptist Church delivered several boxes for Operation Christmas Child to the Relay Station at Wheet Hall last night, Thursday, No... (click photo title to read more)

Columbia Baptist reaches 600 box goal for OCC (Photo ID: 63239)
Columbia Baptist Church reached their goal collecting over 600 Operation Christmas Child boxes. Pictured are Valarie Jackson, Matt Jackson, Bonnie... (click photo title to read more)

Kenzey Crawhorn brings smile and boxes for OCC (Photo ID: 63238)
Kenzey Crawhorn brought in two more boxes to the Wheet Hall Operation Christmas Child collection center, Wednesday, November 18, 2015. There's st... (click photo title to read more)

Abby Kemp does her part for Operation Christmas Child (Photo ID: 63237)
Abby Kemp delivered boxes to the Relay Center at Wheet Hall, tonight, Wednesday, November 18, 2015, for Operation Christmas Child. REMAINING HOU... (click photo title to read more)

Angie and Shelbie Pierce got thank you for OCC gift last year (Photo ID: 63236)
Angie and Shelbie Pierce dropped off their OCC boxes at Wheet Hall tonight, Wednesday, November 18, 2015. Last year they received a thank you let... (click photo title to read more)

Breeding UMC and Red Lick UMC were first at Wheet (Photo ID: 63224)
The Breeding And Red Lick United Methodist Church youth groups were among the first to arrive at the Wheat Fellowship Hall Monday night with thei... (click photo title to read more)

Milltown UMC delivers OCC boxes to Wheet hall (Photo ID: 63220)
The Milltown United Methodist Church delivered their OCC boxes to the relay center earlier in the week. Pictured are Lesha Breeding, Carla Bak... (click photo title to read more)

Adair Lady Indians stuff many boxes for 2015 OCC (Photo ID: 63218)
The Adair County Lady Indians Basketball Team stuffed many OCC boxes with items that will bring joy to many children. Pictured are front row: ... (click photo title to read more)

Junior Giles brings in 300 OCC boxes from Providence Church (Photo ID: 63217)
Providence Baptist Church has been participating in the Operation Christmas Child program for several years. The church collects items year arou... (click photo title to read more)

UCB Bank crew brings in boxes to Wheet Hall for OCC (Photo ID: 63215)
Denise Fudge, Connie Scott, and the United Citizens Bank crew of Nick Fudge, Matt Loy, and Conner Loy filled cartons with Operation Christmas Chil... (click photo title to read more)

Adair Beta, National Honor Society participate in OCC (Photo ID: 63214)
Adair County School District Beta and National Honor Society participate in Operation Christmas Child. In no particular order: Alberta Bosela, E... (click photo title to read more)

Judy Reliford's shoeboxes push OCC past 1,700 at Wheet! (Photo ID: 63211)
Church relations coordinator Carrie Redford right is all smiles as Judy Reliford helps push the Adair County total over 1,700 shoeboxes for the 20... (click photo title to read more)

Coach Cape, Megan Aubin, loading OCC truck with shoeboxes (Photo ID: 63203)
Lindsey Wilson College assistant baseball coach Derek Cape, left, receives a box of shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child from LWC cheerleader M... (click photo title to read more)

LWC Athletics collect gifts for Operation Christmas Child (Photo ID: 63200)
Members of the Lindsey Wilson College Athletics Department gather Tuesday morning in Biggers Sports Center around some of the shoeboxes they helpe... (click photo title to read more)

Plum Point Baptist brings boxes for Operation Christmas Child (Photo ID: 63180)
Kristen York delivered Operation Christmas boxes, Monday, November 16, 2015, from the Plum Point Baptist Church to the Relay Center at Wheet Hall... (click photo title to read more)

Adair County Boy Scouts assist at OCC relay center (Photo ID: 63179)
Members of the Adair County Boy Scouts were on hand to assist at the relay center Monday night. Pictured are Zack Bullock, Preston Cundiff, Brando... (click photo title to read more)

ACHS Basketball Team packs Operation Christmas Child boxes (Photo ID: 63167)
Members of the ACHS Boys' Basketball Team took time to pack items for Operation Christmas Child. The players include Marcus Gaither, Chris Abston... (click photo title to read more)

Ellen Zornes in Hunterland for Operation Christmas Child (Photo ID: 63082)
Ellen Zornes was busy stuffing Operation Christmas boxes at the Columbia Baptist Church Packing party Wednesday night, November 11, 2015, ... (click photo title to read more)

Amazing transformation: From Squarecrow to Santa helper (Photo ID: 63081)
H. Hunter Durham has gone from being a Squarecrow to one... (click photo title to read more)

It's beginning to look a lot like Operation Christmas Child (Photo ID: 63080)
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Columbia Baptist Church. This Operation Christmas Child tree was erected at the church Wednesday, ... (click photo title to read more)

STORIES from 2015's Operation Christmas Child:

Operation Christmas Child, Adair Co., KY now in history book (Story ID: 79168)
A goal has been met and surpassed. New record of 3,229 boxes left the parking lot of Wheet Fellowship Hall on Monday afternoon, 23 Nov 2015, bound ... (click title to read more)

Thrilled to see home church's role in record OCC drive in Adair (Story ID: 79165)
Melson Ridge Separate Baptist Church Kimberly H. Poteet writes: This is my childhood church! (I now live out-... (click title to read more)

The final official total for OCC at Wheet Hall: 3,229 boxes (Story ID: 79157)
See how it happened in over 45 beautiful pictures in one album: Operation Christmas Chi... (click title to read more)

OCC at Wheet Hall in striking distance of record, of 2015 goal! (Story ID: 79130)
Relay Center is open from 2pm-4pmCT, todaySee also: Operation Christm... (click title to read more)

Operation Christmas Child - The story to now in photo(s) (Story ID: 79105)
It's been a great community event so far. Now's the time to do your part, before Thanksgiving to assure a happy Christmas this year. Counting tod... (click title to read more)

LWC Athletics teams collect shoeboxes for OCC (Story ID: 79026)
Six hundred forty-two shoeboxes collected to help give children in developing countries a merry ChristmasClick on headline for story wit... (click title to read more)

ACHS Basketball Team packs Christmas items for OCC (Story ID: 78987)
Collection Days for Operation Christmas Child are November 16-23 at Columbia First Church of the Nazarene, Wheet Fellowship Hall, 1200 Jamestow... (click title to read more)

Operation Christmas Child at Columbia Baptist Church - Album (Story ID: 78887)
Click on headline for album with this story, including a capture of H. Hunter Durham as he's never been seen beforeSee also ... (click title to read more)

Prayer walk for OCC, Wheet Hall, Sun 15 Nov 2015 (Story ID: 78833)
Collection goal this year is 3,000 boxes. Story/with collection days... (click title to read more)

Operation Christmas Child at Columbia Nazarene Church (Story ID: 78732)
Collection Days for Operation Christmas Child are November 16-23 at Columbia First Church of the Nazarene, Wheet Fellowship Hall, 1200 Jamestown St... (click title to read more)

LWC Education Seniors start Cans4Caverna (Story ID: 78493)
Goal is to help feed hungry residents during Thanksgiving Season Donations for Cans4Caverna will be taken at the 2pmCT LWC v Cumber... (click title to read more)
Nicki Johnson, Liberty, KY, will speak at CBC, 18 Oct 2015 (Story ID: 78269)
By Joyce Durham Nicki Johnson of Liberty, KY will be speaking during the evening service at Columbia Baptist Church, 201 Greensburg ... (click title to read more)

CBC will host Operation Christmas Child Kick-Off (Story ID: 77688)
By Joyce Durham News from Columbia Baptist Church Columbia Baptist Church, 201 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY, will be ... (click title to read more)