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The Greatest Journey - Victoria BC

by Charlene de Haan

$2360.69 raised

  • 200 days left
  • 33.7%
  • Goal: $7000.00

About this campaign

A mustard seed of faith expressed our trust in God to disciple children in THE GREATEST JOURNEY. In 2024 a seniors group sponsored six small Bottle Drives. A few ‘keen-agers’ collected bottles & cans from neighbours all year. Three citywide Bottle Drives drove up the total. A pizza parlour joined in & a few cash donations encouraged our hearts. By Nov 30 the Lord had grown that mustard seed into a large tree to disciple 858 children!

Since 2009, more than 50 million boys & girls have attended The Greatest Journey. In 12 lessons, students learn what it means to know Christ, grow in Him & share Jesus with others.

Join us in 2025 by discipling one child for just $8 … or sponsor a classroom for $240. Click the ‘support me’ button at the top right of this screen. To donate offline, phone 1-800-663-6500

To grow this fund, take your recyclables to a Return-it Depot in Esquimalt, Sooke, or Glanford, Quadra or Queens. Designate your refund to OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD- VICTORIA. Thank you!

Updates and comments

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    Anonymous - 16-Jan-2025

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    Return-It Bottle Depot - 29-Jan-2025

    THANK YOU to all the generous recyclers who dropped off cans & bottles from your neighbours, for the Operation Christmas Child account. God bless you all! Special shout-out to Keating Pizza!!

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    Return-It Bottle Depot - 19-Feb-2025

    Thank you to individuals who continued to drop-off recyclable beverage containers in January, donating their Return-It refund credits to Operation Christmas Child in Victoria. May God bless you as we see children discipled in The Greatest Journey classes after they receive their shoebox gift. Read some of those heart-touching stories at https://www.samaritanspurse.ca/occ-stories/?_ga=2.47606116.254252444.1739986233-270460812.1684447727

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    Return-It Bottle Depot - 25-Mar-2025

    Thank you, once again, to faithful partners who regularly drop off refundables to Return-It depots around Greater Victoria, and credit your recycling to our Operation Christmas Child account. A special shout-out to the Prime Timers group at Central Baptist Church who committed again to "recycle to disciple" in 2025. God bless you all!

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    Return-It Bottle Depot - 17-Apr-2025

    Again, we're so grateful to friends and family who contribute household recycling and those who go out into their neighbourhoods on recycling days. One recycling partner, when thanking his neighbours, got an unexpected reaction when a neighbour said "I want to match it with a cash donation!" She then went on to ask him to tell her his total each time he drops off recycling for Operation Christmas Child and she will match it. God bless such a generous spirit! And we thank the Lord for recyclers who aren't shy about telling their neighbours that OCC recycling is all about Jesus!

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    The Cloth Castle - 28-Apr-2025

    In loving memory of Sylvia Ratcliffe

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    Return-It Bottle Drive for Greater Victoria - 30-Apr-2025

    April 12th Bottle Drive ... Thank you to all the neighbours and friends who dropped off refundable beverage containers at our new location. And thank you to 16 amazing volunteers who clocked over 60 hours of service! 58 more children will be able to have their own workbooks as they participate in The Greatest Journey of their lives! ** Please visit us at our next Bottle Drive on June 7th from 10am to 3pm at New Life Community Fellowship, 3900 Carey Rd @ Tillicum.

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    Anonymous - 01-May-2025

    Thank you for the "cash-match" gift for a neighbourhood wide recycling effort!

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    Anonymous - 09-May-2025

    We are so grateful for a small family coin collection, hidden away in the closet since yesteryear, but now invested in the lives of children so that they can experience the love, joy and hope of Jesus ~ forever!

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    Gerald - 10-May-2025

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    Return-It Bottle Depot - 16-May-2025

    We're continually grateful to each one of our 'recycle to disciple' partners who regularly drop off beverage containers to credit our Operation Christmas Child - Victoria account. April's cheque is the highest since January - well done! Please note that you can now drop off containers at Sooke and Esquimalt Return-It as well as Queens, Quadra and Glanford. God bless you all.

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    Anonymous - 18-May-2025

    Thankful for neighbours who faithfully support The Greatest Journey by collecting recyclable beverage containers. Cash match for their efforts.

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    Anonymous - 01-Jun-2025

    Blessed to be a blessing - cash match with DJ

I'm raising money for

The Greatest Journey

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The Greatest Journey is an exciting evangelism and discipleship program that teaches children how to become faithful followers of Christ and to share their faith with others. We offer the program to children who have received Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. Boys and girls who complete The Greatest Journey course receive graduation certificates and New Testaments in their own language. We're able to provide all the study materials, a graduation certificate and New Testament for only $8 per child.

Where your money goes

Samaritan’s Purse allocates 90% of every dollar we raise directly to our ministry efforts.

  • 90% Ministry
  • 7% General Administration
  • 3% Donor Education & Fundraising
(Average annual spending allocations over past 5 years)