Siouxland church gathering gifts for children around the world

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — A Sioux City church has been reaching out to its congregation to help kids have a merry Christmas.

Operation Christmas Child has churches across the U.S take in donations of presents and distribute them to underprivileged kids around the world.

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The event has been held since 1993 by Samaritan's Purse, but Sunnybrook Community Church has only been a part of it for about 15 years now. Sunnybrook officials say that every year the receive a ton of donations from people."

"2023, we collected almost 3,000 boxes, so about a 20 percent increase," Blake Meacham with the church said. "Again, our congregation is so giving and they are so thankful to be a part of something so much bigger than themselves and they follow through every year."

If you haven't donated yet, but would like to, Meacham recommends people pick up their boxes and fill them up before Nov. 25.

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