{"id":19144,"date":"2022-10-26T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=19144&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=19144"},"modified":"2022-10-26T11:30:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:30:47","slug":"first-baptist-ask-for-help-filling-christmas-shoe-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/community\/first-baptist-ask-for-help-filling-christmas-shoe-boxes-20221026","title":{"rendered":"First Baptist Ask For Help Filling Christmas Shoe Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Alton, Mo. \u2013 <\/strong>Alton First Baptist Church is working diligently to fill Christmas shoe boxes. They have a goal of 125 boxes to send to poor and needy children. The church is enlisting the public for assistance. Here is what you can do.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dmdsuToQMQI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>What Is It?<\/h3>\n<p>The Christmas shoebox ministry is a worldwide ministry that gives a shoebox of various items to a needy child somewhere in the world at Christmastime.<\/p>\n<h3>Fill<\/h3>\n<p>Feel free to contact the church about filling a shoebox. There are certain guidelines that are not difficult to follow. Basically, they want new items, all packaged for a certain age and sex. Do not wrap the presents or seal the box.<\/p>\n<h3>Donate<\/h3>\n<p>You can donate $20 to the church. That is the average cost of filling a shoebox. The donation will go to the one who shops for the shoebox.<\/p>\n<p>You can also donate in $10 increments. To ship the boxes costs $10 per box. This includes a Bible and a discipleship program in each box.<\/p>\n<p>The church will accept donations of any amount to be used for the Christmas Shoe Box program.<\/p>\n<h3>Deadline<\/h3>\n<p>The church needs to have donations to the church by Sunday, October 30, 2022, and shoeboxes to the church by Wednesday, November 2, 2022.<\/p>\n<h3>Contact Information<\/h3>\n<p>All boxes and donations go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/churches\/alton-first-baptist-church\">First Baptist Church<\/a> in Alton, Missouri. Contact the church at 417-372-7531 or Debbie Langston if you can help sponsor the OCC Shoebox Project.<\/p>\n<p>So do not delay. Children around the world are depending on you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alton First Baptist Church is working diligently to fill Christmas shoe boxes.  The church is enlisting the public for assistance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[243,257,283,258,201,264,205,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19144"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19200,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions\/19200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}