Lael Hutcheson
Since 2001, Lael's partnership with Operation Christmas Child has helped thousands of people around the world hear the Gospel.
In 1982 when Lael became a Christian, she was shy and hesitant to surrender her life to God in the area of evangelism. She feared that the moment she did, God would have her speaking publicly in the streets. But God helped her overcome her fears and is now using her in an incredible ministry. In 1996, she and her family got involved with Operation Christmas Child. New Song Community Church joined efforts and in 2001, 88 shoe boxes were filled for children around the world. Last year, thanks to her "packing parties," Lael and 100 other volunteers of all ages from New Song helped put together 1,951 shoes boxes filled with gifts for Christmas. But most importantly, they included Gospel tracts in the child's native language.
Samaritan's Purse has found that an average of 20 people hear the Good News of Jesus Christ from just 1 shoe box. Based on this average, nearly 40,000 people heard the gospel last year through the New Song packing party organized by Lael. An amazing work by God through someone who was hesitant to be an evangelist!
If any church is interested in having an Operation Christmas Child "packing party," please contact the GCC office for more information.
With approximately 30 families, River Ridge Church
planted a second campus in Teays Valley, WV in the fall of
2008. The church decided on a model of "one church in two
locations." While each of the five pastors concentrate their
ministry efforts on
Who would have thought that two fathers would be
involved with their college age children in starting a new
campus ministry? It was an answer to prayer. We had been
praying that the Lord would provide an opportunity to continue
laboring in the gospel
