Operation Christmas Child….
ABOUT SORINA DRAGOI RIDDLE:
When Sorina Dragoi received a gift-filled shoe box at a church in Romania, she knew nothing about Operation Christmas Child. All that mattered was that someone in a faraway place had lovingly packed a box for her.
“My box contained a lot of neat things that we didn’t have access to where we lived,” says Sorina, who received the gift box when she was 12 years old. “I remember getting a knitted white hat and a long white scarf. I still have them.”
The event remains a fond Christmas memory for Sorina. She remembers walking home in the snow with her younger brother, both of them holding tightly to their shoe boxes. They could hardly wait to show these treasures to their parents. It would be the last Christmas they would celebrate with their seriously ill father.
After receiving the boxes, Sorina began attending the little church with her mother and brother on a regular basis. All three of them became Christians, and as a teenager, Sorina became involved in the church’s ministry to Romanian orphans.
About 10 years later, Sorina got the chance to participate in a shoe box distribution in Romania. She was teaching English at a Christian school, where 100 kids from underprivileged families received boxes sent by the Samaritan’s Purse office in the United Kingdom.
But the giving did not stop there. “After the boxes were handed out to all of the children, there were some leftover,” Sorina says. “So our kids went to a nearby village and handed out the rest of the boxes to other poor children. It was great to see them be both givers and receivers.”
Sorina came to the U.S. to get her Masters Degree in English at the University of Tennessee. She now resides in Richfield, NC with her husband Lance and works at Pfeiffer University. She has a passion to share about her experience with Operation Christmas Child in local churches and leads the project at her church.
Our thanks to Sorina Riddle for joining us on the Life 101.9 Morning Show!
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Posted: November 5th, 2009 under Operation Christmas Child, Uncategorized.
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