Story number 5 for 12 Dec 2000

And, baseball slugger Sammy Sosa has teamed up with Samaritan’s Purse to distribute Christmas cheer to the needy in 75 countries around the world. Sosa will be hand-delivering gift boxes in his home country, the Dominican Republic. It’s all part of “Operation Christmas Child”, the world’s largest children’s Christmas project. Operation Christmas Child sends a message of hope to children in desperate situations around the world through gift-filled shoeboxes and Gospel literature.