Staff report Children in need are being blessed this Christmas season through the Samaritan’s Purse project, Operation Christmas Child. Individuals, families and groups have the opportunity to pack a shoebox gift filled with fun toys,

Linda Salomon and Stephanie Kobialka help transfer cartons loaded with Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes from a truck that came from Mercer County into a trailer that will be driven to a processing center in North Carolina. Local Operation Christmas Child donors and volunteers are stepping up their game this year.