'A chest of gold'
For the 11-year-old orphan, it was like opening “a chest of gold.”Alyona Eakes, whose parents, grandmother and older sister had died by the time she was 10, was living in an orphanage in the Ukraine when she received the unexpected gift during Sunday school. It’s a surprise, the preacher told her and the other children who would receive a shoe box from Operation Christmas Child.Packed inside that cardboard box were, among other items, white socks, a few coloring books and […]
