The Mooreland High School Spanish Club has been doing Operation Christmas Child ever since Mrs. Arney started teaching here. In November of 2014, Oklahoma City’s News Channel 4 made a trip to Mooreland High School Monday to present the school with a $600 check from sponsor Jim North Toyota of Oklahoma City for recognition in the station’s “What’s Right With Our Schools” segment. Mooreland schools was awarded the contribution following the collection effort by high school students to prepare shoe boxes filled with gifts for “Operation Christmas Child.” The school initially anticipated receiving around 50 boxes for the cause, but instead students prepared 135. “Operation Christmas Child” is the world’s largest Christmas project of its kind and uses gift-filled shoe boxes “to share God’s love in a tangible way with needy children around the world.” Since 1993, Samaritan’s Purse has collected and delivered more than 113 million gift-filled shoe boxes to children in over 150 countries through Operation Christmas Child.
Bob Pierce founded and led the ministry of Samaritan's Purse in 1970. His mission for this organization was "to meet emergency needs in crisis areas through existing evangelical mission agencies and national churches." After World War II, Bob Pierce traveled throughout Asia as an evangelist and journalist with Youth for Christ. While on a university lecturing circuit in China, he stumbled across some courageous women who were living among lepers and orphans, sacrificing everything to share the love of Jesus Christ. Through their selfless love, God gave Pierce a vision for ministry. He dedicated himself to finding and supporting other such Christians who were caring for the poor and suffering in the distant corners of the world.
In the summer of 1973, Bob Pierce met his eventual successor, an adventurous young student named Franklin Graham with a growing heart for world missions. Intrigued by his many stories from the field, Franklin began to spend more and more time with the seasoned Christian statesman. In 1975, he accompanied Bob on a life-changing tour of some of the world's neediest mission fields. Franklin saw the poverty of pagan religions and the utter despair of the people they enslave. God had captured his heart for missions.
Bob Pierce died of leukemia in 1978, and a little over a year later, Franklin Graham became the President and Chairman of the Board of Samaritan's Purse. Through over 30 years of earthquakes, hurricanes, wars, and famine, Franklin has led the ministry in following the Biblical example of the Good Samaritan all across the globe. God has blessed the organization under Franklin's leadership, and the ministry has seen explosive growth.
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