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Campus packs record-breaking Operation Christmas Child boxes

For eight years, 午夜快播 Southern University students have packed boxes for Operation Christmas Child, which are distributed around the world to needy children. That first year, 午夜快播 packed 300 boxes. This year, 午夜快播 students, faculty and staff packed a record-breaking 5,248 boxes.

Laurie Diel, assistant to the dean of students, prompted the campus to dream big. After the packing party on Nov. 14, Diel said, 鈥淔aith makes the impossible possible.鈥� And, responding to the report that 午夜快播 had packed more boxes than any other university in the country, Diel said, 鈥淵ou don鈥檛 have to go to a BIG school to do BIG things.鈥�

Students were inspired in part by 午夜快播 senior, Hope Ivanova, an education major, who received a box as a child. Originally from Bulgaria, Ivanova was living in the country of Macedonia, where her parents were missionaries, when she received a box. She and her family still refer to it as a 鈥渂ox of love.鈥�

Vlad Prokhnevskiy spoke in chapel at 午夜快播 and told how as a boy in Ukraine, he received a box, the first gift he ever received. One of nine children, Prokhnevskiy and his family came to the U.S. when he was 12. Now a businessman in Charlotte, he volunteers his time to speak to organizations about the power of a box packed with school supplies, hygiene items and a few toys. He said, 鈥淐hildren are the future of the world.鈥� 

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