Every fall when the weather starts cooling down and the leaves start changing color, we get extra excited here in the Cone home. We were made for this weather. We can’t understand why anyone would want to live anywhere other than here where the day starts with clear blue skies and the temperature graces the 50 degree mark. But of …

  Going into Ecuador last year with Operation Christmas Child, I wanted to make the most of the opportunity. I knew that very few people will ever have the chance to actually hand-deliver the shoeboxes the pack to the children who need them most, so I prayed about how to deliver the strongest message back to you all. So in …

I hope everyone in Nashville/Middle TN will join me today at the Operation Christmas Child regional office for the Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Summit 2014! This workshop is for any “Project Leader” (anyone designated as your church, school or community group’s organizer of shoeboxes…or anyone hoping to be!). At the workshop, we’ll learn: NEW shoebox packing ideas How to increase …

If you’ve been following my Operation Christmas Child shoebox journey during my recent trip to Ecuador, now you can watch the entire process, from packing to distribution, in just minutes! I met Stefania on top of a mountain over 11,000 feet in the air on our very last distribution. Though we’d already been to two orphanages, a church and a …

I tried to post while I was on my Operation Christmas Child Ecuador distribution trip (#OCCEcuador), really I did… I wanted to post all the pictures I took… I wanted to share all the emotions I felt… I wanted to tell you about the faces I saw… I wanted to recap the moments the kids opened the boxes… I wanted …

I’m writing this to you tonight from a plane on my way to Ecuador with Operation Christmas Child (#OCCEcuador). Hopefully you caught my big announcement on Facebook & Twitter earlier this week, but if not, this may be surprising you like it did my mom when I called her on my way to the airport this morning! (I’m not much …

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