I hope you enjoyed your day at the Processing Center! That looks like a big one! Yes… more paper, pencils and sharpeners! That’s exactly what I’ve tried to share. I’m going back tomorrow for a third shift! I’m bringing a third carload full of pencil packs with paper! I know it’s just a drop in the bucket but if we keep encouraging maybe it will make a difference! Thank you for sharing!

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

YES!!!! I went home and gathered all the "extra" paper in our house and made lined-paper paper rolls, copy paper booklets, and pencil packs and took them in as filler onThursday. I had no idea how big the need was.

Thanks for sharing, Robynn! I keep hearing of the dire need of paper and pencils. I’m volunteering this coming Friday at the Fullerton, CA center. Bringing with me an additional carload of pencils, sharpeners and notebooks. Hopefully, they will come in handy!

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

I guarantee your filler will be very handy! Enjoy your day serving it's such a wonderful experience.

I love seeing all the different processing centers! I can't believe paper and pencils are still such an under donated item at your location! I've never donated filler before but I did this year just based on everyone's feedback that there was a need. I didn't pack much because it was unexpected and I used what I had on hand but next year I do plan on packing more school supply filler. I can't imagine a box without a pencil and paper! Thanks for sharing!

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

Many boxes cam through with unfinished school/art supplies like crayons and no paper or coloring books and no crayons. One or two pencils with no sharpener and I even saw sharpeners and no pencils. It really was just a mess. I would say 75% of boxes needed some form of paper, pencils, sharpeners or crayons.

@samanthasoccshoeboxes

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattmanandrobynn That's great to know Robyn. People who volunteered giving us feedback on what was missing is the only way we'll know how to help next year! I've already made up my mind that I will be packing 1 or 2 less shoeboxes next year to accommodate making more school supply filler to help other boxes be more complete. Quality over quantity. 🙂

Great tour Robynn! 😊 Glad you had fun! Wish I could volunteer also. At least I can help with boxes and fillers! Hope you continue to have fun when you return! ~Rosy

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

Fillers are soooo needed and loved! you did more than you know by providing filler.

I love seeing the processing center! It’s amazing! Thanks so much for sharing and volunteering!💜💜💜

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dawne! It was such a great experience I highly recommend it.

Thank you for showing a processing center. I love being a part of this great work.

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

I hadn't been in years it was so nice to see.

Thank you for sharing all this! I thought it would be great to volunteer, but I cannot stand for very long due to joint and leg problems! You are the first I’ve heard share there is even a place for those who cannot stand long to volunteer! Again thank you THANK YOU THANK YOU! ❤❤❤

@mattmanandrobynn

5 ай бұрын

You are so welcome! I hope you get to go this year. Just be sure to let them know your limits and ask to work in the filler items.

Love your videos you have encouraged me to volunteer for 2022 in melbourne australia love filling the boxes so another step up is called for

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

Oh Please do a video... I would LOVE to see an AU processing center :)

Thank you for a great video. I find it so odd that stationery is so needed. It is literally the first thing I've always popped in. They are needed but also so fun! I love a new pencil case. Great team effort ☺️

@mattmanandrobynn

Жыл бұрын

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Love the tour, Robynn! Looks like a lot of fun. If you see any boxes from W TN, would love to know! Mine have been processed in Atlanta, Charlotte and Boone in the past, but I'm about half-way between DFW and ATL, so never know! I sent a good bit of filler with mine...pencil packs and rolls of paper (used a gift wrapped empty toilet paper roll to hold). Wish I were close enough to drop more! TFS!

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't see any TN boxes in my two days there. But after my day on Tuesday I went home and made the same rolls of paper you mentioned and took them in as filler on Thursday! :)

@bluffcitybounty2122

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattmanandrobynn Awesome! I got that idea from a video Denise Rogers made, so the credit goes to her. They are so easy and it sounds like, useful! 🙂

Thanks for sharing!

@mattmanandrobynn

6 ай бұрын

It was fun!

Thank you for the video. I have been several times but I'm taking a group with me this year that has never been. I will be sharing this with them so that they know what to expect.

@mattmanandrobynn

6 ай бұрын

So cool! hope you had fun

Thanks for sharing this tour of the PC! I sure wish I lived closer to a PC. Looks like the greatest experience ever!

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

You're in Canada right??? I will say both days I served the teams with me drove from over 12 hrs away. It would be very normal to be traveling from far to serve at a Processing Center. :)

Great video Robynn!! You could be an OCC Reporter ❤💚 Thanks for sharing 🥰

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

Robynn here reporting from the OCC processing center, the forecast is looking great with boxes headed to Ecuador today with 100% chance of making an impact, now back to you Jessica. hahahaha

@FoothillsFamily365

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattmanandrobynn 😄💖☺️

Robyn I just volunteered today also at the Denver center. It was a wonderful experience and I’m going back tommorrow. We too didnt have a lot of pencils, paper, crayons as filters. Next year I will try and donate that as my filter.

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

Tammy, I went home on Tuesday and gathered all the paper in my house and took it will me as filler on Thursday. I actually got to see one of my filler get packed in a box just as I was leaving.

Thanks for showing Dallas, Robynn. Hopefully next year we can go.

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

There were so many volunteers who had traveled to be there. You won't be alone.

Great to see you so happy and excited to be volunteering. I donated some fillers this year for the first time. I got some document bags from amazon (9.4×7.1 Inch) A5 size. I'm was able to make some booklet using blank copy paper with a card stock cover. I was also able to buy some loose leaf paper and just fold some in half an stick it inside for some extra paper. There is room to put some pencils, pens, erasers, pencil sharpeners, misc. in the bag as well. Mine all had school and art supplies. I wanted to do more but I ran out of time. I thought I'd share just in case anyone else wants to do it next year.

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing!!!! I guarantee your school supply fillers were very loved!

Thank you, Robynn, for a fantastic “fly on the wall” view of your processing center experience. It has been so exciting to see everyone’s tours of their respective OCC PCs. Between Denise , Sharon and you, I feel like I have gotten a great idea of what to expect should I ever have an opportunity to volunteer. If only I lived closer to a PC 😢

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Honestly both days I served the teams i served with had traveled for over 12 hours to be there. It would be very normal to have traveled far to volunteer. Then we could go to DAISO together. lol

@byrdfeed9071

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattmanandrobynn 🤔 well, that’s encouraging to know that some volunteers traveled 12 hours! I guess I will have to reevaluate my thought process, but I’m no spring chicken, like you, Robynn 😂. All year I had planned to volunteer, but when it came down to the wire, I thought to myself…you’re 69 and you’re going to drive a 13 year old car, by yourself, pay for gas at $3+/gallon and a hotel stay? What? Are you crazy? Well, the answer to that is “yes”, but by then I had talked myself out of it 😕. Of course, now I’m sorry 😢, but, I will do it next year (when my car and myself are a year older, 😂).

@sarahschreffler5407

2 жыл бұрын

@@byrdfeed9071 Fly and have someone pick you up?

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

@@byrdfeed9071 don’t feel bad!!!! Both of those teams came with churches that provided busses for travel and hotel stays. We all have priorities and budgets and if you’d rather put your time, effort, and funds into boxes that’s totally great!!

@maritzacopping3309

2 жыл бұрын

@@byrdfeed9071 that’s funny, Trish.

Excellent video, loved it, had a lot of good inside information. I would love to see a demonstration of how the box hospital works.💕

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

It was a great day.

There I am in the yellow shirt at 5:58 for 2 seconds... on my way to break. Thanks for this video. I was looking for a video to post on FB to show my family what we do. Great rundown!

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

That’s so fun! I’ve never seen myself in someone else’s video. But I bet it is surreal. 😀 so glad we got to serve together even if I didn’t get to meet you. 👍

@teresangunyi6129

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattmanandrobynn Yes!! Thanks for serving. I worked outside on Thursday. Maybe I waved you in...or out. 😇

@teresangunyi6129

2 жыл бұрын

Home today with a sick child.

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

@@teresangunyi6129 I bet you did! Hope your little one feels better soon.

Iloveyou somuch miss you

@mattmanandrobynn

Жыл бұрын

Thanks👍

OH girl, I love you so much! Love these videos. And I have to add, I’m so jealous. No masks out in public. Wow, what is that like?

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

It's really normal here. Of course you can still wear a mask if you want to. (zealots on both sides still sneer at you if you are or aren't wearing one) And people still feel uncomfortable if you are sneezing or coughing, I use an obtuse amount of hand sanitizer, but other than that it's back to business as usual here.

Robynn, today is Thursday, December 2nd, I m checking in to see how it went with your volunteering today at the OCC distribution center in Fw. I 🙏 prayed for you and the other workers.

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the prayers! I did go, it was really emotional in a good way! I will do a video soon reflecting on the whole experience.

@tracystoaks6573

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattmanandrobynn ok awesome, looking forward to it.

This is so cool to see!!! How can someone get connected with the processing center to volunteer. If we are ever in the US during OCC processing, I would love to volunteer. :) Tearing up here... Such a beautiful group serving and blessing kids all over!

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

It truly is amazing!!! Here is the link 😊 www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/volunteer-at-a-shoebox-processing-center/

One day I'll go and Dallas is our processing center too!

@sarahschreffler5407

2 жыл бұрын

I sent a bunch of filler but did not realize stuffed animals are needed. When I see boxes that are scant on school supplies they still manage to have stuffed animals! Ill keep that in mind next year and see about sending stuffed animals too.

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sarah! Filler is so needed anything is a blessing. Small plushies are really needed the size of beanie babies and smaller. Pencil packs of all sizes are very welcome, big full ones in zipper pencil bags down to two pencils and a pencil sharpener in a zip lock are scooped up as soon as we see them.

@sarahschreffler5407

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattmanandrobynn SMALL plushies? For some reason I thought the larger WOW sizes were what was needed. I've been knitting cats that were about 2/3 the length of the OCC boxes but I have a pattern to make them smaller and maybe I ought to try that.

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

@@sarahschreffler5407 both are needed. Some boxes come in with large bottles of shampoo and conditioner and when those items are taken out we need those larger stuffed animals for sure! I would say while inspecting I needed a big plushie to fill an empty box once an hour and a smaller one to fill a half full box 3 or 4 times an hour. 😊 All your hard work will be very loved!!

Robynn ,you did an amazing job showing us around and explaining the stations and the break areas, store and available food items. And prayer areas.. Yes it is November 30th, I know that because it's my birthday. I wish I was there with you. I do have a question, when you go back Thursday could you find out for me if they are accepting volunteers in December or January. I should be recovered soon. I really would love to come volunteer this year. Your tour and ten team at station 14 really made me wish I was there.

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

Tracy, I didn't get to ask anyone about Volunteer time lines but online it looks like all the PCs are accepting Volunteers through 12/18 and then Charlotte is accepting packers through 12/26.

@tracystoaks6573

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattmanandrobynn thank you, I couldn't find it online so you are a great help.

Thanks for showing the processing center. What do they do with the rubber bands?

@tracystoaks6573

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering about the rubber bands also.

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

Great question! It's kind of up to each inspector. A lot of them get thrown away, several of them snap as you pull them off.... But I put them back in all the 5-9 and 10 -14 boxes. Rubber bands are useful and fun so I just put them back in the boxes but a lot of the volunteers at my station threw them away.

None of my boxes had stuffed animals. My boxes were too full and I couldn't fit them in there. I figured the school supplies, clothes, etc. were more important. Do they try stuffing them in there. if they don't see them?

@mattmanandrobynn

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Lulu! you don't have to put a stuffed animal in a box. But many of the boxes came in half full and a big fluffy stuffed animal is so nice to send as a wow item in a box that was a little empty.

What happens to all the stuff that has to be taken out

@mattmanandrobynn

Жыл бұрын

They are re-donated to local nonprofit organizations like food pantries, and women’s shelters. It’s different for every processing center.

@MaryC2698

Жыл бұрын

@@mattmanandrobynn that really good was curious because I see them put in buckets or bins so I didn't know thank you