Some of you may remember the controversy surrounding this evangelical outfit's campaign to send shoeboxes of toys as Christmas presents to needy children overseas.  The catch was that the toys couldn't be collected until the child attended a Sunday School-type meeting (previously religious material was included in the shoebox itself - this was dropped after adverse publicity in the press).

I hadn't heard of Samaritan's Purse for years, but earlier today I saw a small poster in a local shop asking for volunteers to help pack the shoeboxes.  Apparently it doesn't matter "if you are Christian or Jedi, male or female..."  I wonder how many people realize that the apparently altruistic gift-giving is in fact an attempt to evangelize children?