About 250 children from the Caribbean island of Barbuda, whose homes were destroyed by Hurricane Irma in September, have received early Christmas presents, delivered to them by a Texas pastor and his wife whose own home was destroyed by Hurricane Harvey in August.
Pastor Mark and Cherry Brumbelow of Wild Peach, Texas, traveled with representatives of the evangelical humanitarian organization Samaritan’s Purse to the island of Antigua last week, where they had the privilege of handing out Operation Christmas Child gift-filled shoeboxes to hundreds of Barbudan refugee children evacuated from the island after the category five storm made the island uninhabitable for the first time in 300 years.
Operation Christmas Child, a Samaritan’s Purse-operated annual gift drive fueled by churches and volunteers across the United States who pack shoeboxes full of toys, school supplies and hygiene items that are delivered to kids in impoverished nations, decided to give Barbudan children an early Christmas present.
Although Operation Christmas Child’s annual collection week…
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