Alex received a shoe box from Operation Christmas Child one year after arriving at the orphanage and remembers being so excited to have a gift to call his own Softening the walls of bitterness and pain that the genocide instilled in Alex the shoe box gift sowed seeds of hope and love that he desperately needed Now a college graduate Alex lives in North Carolina and serves with Operation Christmas Child paying forward the hope and love he received through a shoe box gift as a young boy

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Alex received a shoe box from Operation Christmas Child one year after arriving at the orphanage and remembers being so excited to have a gift to call his own. Softening the walls of bitterness and pain that the genocide instilled in Alex, the shoe box gift sowed seeds of hope and love that he desperately needed. Now a college graduate, Alex lives in North Carolina and serves with Operation Christmas Child, paying forward the hope and love he received through a shoe box gift as a young boy.