{"id":22304,"date":"2017-11-21T17:57:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=22304"},"modified":"2017-11-21T17:57:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:57:31","slug":"festive-shoeboxes-ready-shipped-radyr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2017\/11\/21\/festive-shoeboxes-ready-shipped-radyr\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive shoeboxes ready to be shipped from Radyr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">THIS year, a grand total of 288 shoeboxes have been collected from around Radyr and Morganstown for Operation Christmas Child.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every year gift-wrapped shoeboxes or ready-made boxes are filled with small gifts, and useful items such as school supplies, hygiene items and warm clothes and sent to children in need around the world. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samaritan\u2019s Purse, an Evangelical Christian humanitarian aid organisation, distributes the boxes to children who live in extreme poverty, as part of their Operation Christmas Child project. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The congregation of Christ Church on Heol Isaf, Radyr, brought in their contributions to the appeal on Sunday morning for a special Shoebox Sunday service. The shoeboxes were brought up to the altar during the service to build a \u2018wall of love\u2019. <\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22320\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-22320\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/fullsizeoutput_25.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"385\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22320\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/fullsizeoutput_25.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"385\" \/><\/noscript> The shoeboxes were stacked up in the windows around the church.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nMember of the Congregation Jill Newbould said: \u201cIt is an amazing thing and a great cause &#8211; the shoeboxes bring such joy to children who have nothing. I think people genuinely enjoy doing something active, and not just giving money to a cause.\u201d<br \/>\nGrandmother of six, Anne-Marie Phillips of Heol Isaf, Radyr, has organised the collection in the Radyr area for the last 10 years.<br \/>\nShe been has working tirelessly to make sure that everything is in order for the boxes to be collected from Christ Church in Radyr, St. John\u2019s Church in Danescourt, Bryn Deri Primary School and Radyr Primary School.<br \/>\nGenerous donations were also received from Sunday Schools, the Mothers\u2019 Union, Radyr and Morganstown W.I., Radyr National Women&#8217;s Register, Rotary Club of Llandaff, Ladies of Radyr Golf Club, and Radyr Parish Music Group.<br \/>\nAll boxes collected from the area have been taken to a warehouse in Llantrisant, where they are sorted and put into crates, ready for delivery.<br \/>\nMrs Phillips said: \u201cOnce again I am delighted to report that we&#8217;ve had a wonderful response to the shoebox appeal. You are all to be thanked most sincerely for your generosity.<br \/>\nI\u2019m shattered! It\u2019s been a very busy few weeks. When we first started the shoebox appeal we had about 20 donations but I know a lot of people and I\u2019m a bit bossy, so it&#8217;s just gone up and up.\u201d<br \/>\nReverend Canon Jenny Wigley of Christ Church said: \u201cAnne-Marie is one of those people who just won\u2019t take no for an answer. She has that gift of persuading anyone and everyone to support her good causes, and the results speak for themselves &#8211; (stained glass) window to (stained glass) window shoe boxes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS year, a grand total of 288 shoeboxes have been collected from around Radyr and Morganstown for Operation Christmas Child. 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