The fifth annual “Give to a Giver” project is an opportunity for individuals, departments or groups to spread holiday cheer around the world to Loma Linda University Health overseas missionaries and their families by sponsoring Christmas care packages.
These missionaries are Loma Linda University alumni, Global Service Awardees, Deferred Mission Appointees or Adventist Health International long-term volunteers. They serve at Loma Linda University Health strategic partner sites as physicians, dentists, hospital administrators, nurses and public health educators.
Care packages are collected and shipped by Loma Linda University Health’s Global Health Institute in collaboration with Students for International Mission Service and the National Association of Seventh-day Adventist Dentists.
Here’s how the program works:
- Choose a missionary or missionary family by contacting the Global Health Institute.
- Pick up a shipping box from the institute’s office at 24888 Prospect Ave., starting Friday, Dec. 1.
- Fill it up — up to 20 pounds.
- Return it, unsealed, by Tuesday, Dec. 12.
- Feel warm fuzzies.
To learn more about this project and see a list of suggested gifts, please visit lluglobal.com/Christmas or contact Angeli Yutuc, program manager of international service, at 909-558-4876 or ayutuc@llu.edu.