Bishar Bare, with Focus House in Willmar, unloads gifts Monday at Youth For Christ in Willmar. Youth For Christ is the collection point for Operation Christmas Child, a program in which the public, churches and youth groups make shoebox-sized gifts. The gifts are then shipped to between 90 and100 countries worldwide and delivered to children in hos-pitals and orphanages, as wells as to poor neighborhoods. The collection continues through Monday. Tribune photo by Bill Zimmer
