Donations encouraged for Samaritan's Purse, Operation Christmas Child - Give shoeboxes filled with gifts for needy children overseas

FALLBROOK — Christmas is arriving early all over Fallbrook, as a local church prepares to serve as a collection point for Operation Christmas Child.

Soon, with the help of area volunteers, the sites will be brimming with festively wrapped shoeboxes full of gifts.

Through Operation Christmas Child, the world’s largest Christmas project, residents are packing shoebox gifts for children in more than 100 countries suffering from natural disaster, war, terrorism, disease, famine and poverty.

From Fallbrook, the gifts will be sorted and sent using whatever means necessary – sea container, truck, tra...