Father Isaac Essel blesses Operation Christmas Child boxes at St. Mary Catholic Church in Albia earlier this month.
The Catholic Messenger
Members of St. Mary Parish-Albia, St. Patrick Parish-Georgetown and St. Peter Parish-Lovilia filled 45 Operation Christmas Child boxes earlier this month. Father Isaac Essel, pastor of the three parishes, blessed the boxes before Steve Wynn and Bob Tangie of the Albia parish delivered them to a drop-off site in Ottumwa. Father Essel, a priest from Cape Coast, Ghana, said one of his former parishes was an Operation Christmas Child beneficiary.
