What is a Connect Leadership Team?
Connect Leadership Teams serve year-round in their local communities to promote Operation Christmas Child and encourage participation, helping children around the world hear the Gospel and experience God’s love through giftboxes.
Discover how you can use your God-given talents in prayer, logistics, communication, administration, and more to help lead children around the world to the Greatest Gift, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Why You Should Serve on a Connect Leadership Team
Gospel Opportunities in 100+ Countries
Participate as a part of a larger body of Operation Christmas Child around the world.
Children + Families
Many gift box recipients participate in our follow-up discipleship program, The Greatest Journey. Through the 12-lesson Bible-based series, millions of children have decided to follow Christ.
Worldwide Network
Join a global community of Operation Christmas Child leaders serving across nations and cultures. Samaritan’s Purse translates the Gospel materials into more than 100 languages and provides them along with giftboxes to local ministry partners around the world, equipping them to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with children in their communities.
Unique Fit
Find a role that fits your God-given gifts. You can lead teams, build relationships, provide needed training, organize ministry details, plan events, and serve in prayer.
For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:12 (NKJV)
Ways I Can Serve
Find a role that fits your gifting
Area Coordinator
This leadership role focuses on recruiting, leading, and developing a team of volunteers in order to accomplish the mission of Operation Christmas Child.
Church Relations
Church relations leaders build and cultivate relationships with local Christian churches to help them fulfil the Great Commission by their participation in Operation Christmas Child.
Prayer
Prayer is central to all ministries of Samaritan’s Purse. The Prayer Coordinator, along with local prayer team members, intercedes for the spread of the Gospel through Operation Christmas Child.
Logistics
Logistics leaders grow and develop the collection network in their area. These volunteers serve as the face of Operation Christmas Child as giftboxes are dropped off and begin their journey around the world.
Community Relations
Community relations team members use their gifts to represent the ministry in their local community. They engage and equip groups, businesses, and civic organizations to become actively involved in Operation Christmas Child.
Frequently Asked Questions
As a year-round Connect Leader, you would join a worldwide network of people passionate about sharing the Gospel with children and their families. There are a variety of roles available that do anything from recruiting and developing local teams to cultivating relationships with local churches.
What unique skills or gifts has God given you? Recruiting and leading? Check out our Team Leader role. Cultivating relationships and equipping people? Investigate opportunities in Church Relations. Running a missional and efficient Drop-off Location? Look into Logistics. Interceding locally and worldwide? Maybe our Prayer Team is a good fit for you. Each role highlights distinctive skills, and every Operation Christmas Child volunteer is equipped and trained for their specific role when they come on board.
You can serve with Operation Christmas Child wherever you are. We are building Connect Leadership Teams across the country. Once you apply and progress through the selection process, we will connect you with your local Connect Leadership Team to serve with like-minded Christians in your community.
Globally we have Connect Leadership Team members in all seasons of life! Our diverse leadership base includes individuals who work full time with busy family schedules, retirees, grandparents, stay-at-home parents, and students. There is flexibility to serve in your role on a schedule that works for you. Don’t let the time commitment keep you from exploring this opportunity!
Every Operation Christmas Child volunteer is equipped for their role when they come on board. We believe God uniquely gifts and prepares those He calls to this ministry. You also serve with a local Connect Leadership Team, so you have a built-in support system to encourage you in your work!
You will receive one-on-one training tailored to your role, receive personal coaching while serving as a leader, and participate in global online leadership conferences to receive ministry updates and information.