Photo 1. On November 30, Good People and Yoido Full Gospel Church held the “2013 Sharing-Hope Boxing Day” at Cheonggye Plaza in Seoul, where they delivered daily necessities worth approximately 1,800,000,000 won to low-income residents of the city. “Boxing Day” dates back to the Middle Ages, when it was the custom to pack daily necessities such as clothes, grain and tools into boxes and deliver them to poor people on the day after Christmas.
On this day 200 some volunteers and citizens filled 18,000 boxes to deliver to neighbors in need, such as elderly persons living alone, impoverished persons and multicultural families. The boxes contained 19 kinds of daily use goods including dried laver, sesame oil and noodles, provided through the support of the churches, CJ CheilJedang, and Community Chest of Korea.
Photo 2. Lee Young-hoon, board chairperson of Good People, presents daily necessities worth 1,800,000,000 won to Seoul City Mayor Park Won-soon.
Photo 3. Also on November 30, Sarang Church, celebrating first-time worship in its new sanctuary in Seocho-dong, Seoul, presented 300,000,000 won to the Korean Diakonia to support reconstruction in earthquake-damaged Haiti, and 150,000,000 won for restoration following the typhoon in the Philippines.
In addition, the church held a Christmas gift-packing event, at which members prepared 2,013 boxes, each containing 50,000 won worth of daily use goods, for delivery to elderly persons living alone, young persons from broken families, and low-income “differently abled” (handicapped) persons living in Seocho-ku. Recently Sarang Church also supplied 13,000 kg of rice to 1,300 low-income households of differently abled persons in the area. This is the 15th year of the church’s rice-delivery program, which has supported 10,000 households with 216 tons of rice so far.
