Packed with Love!

2025 has wrapped! Check back later for our 2026 details.

Each Christmas, we can show the love of Jesus through practical assistance, providing food hampers and gifts that have been packed with love.

Each year we distribute hampers to congregations so that they can be given to people who are finding life difficult and need a helping hand. We want the hampers to help create opportunities for you to connect with people in your community and show love in a practical way. The hampers contain food and gifts and each year they are given as an expression of Jesus’ love, letting people know that we are thinking of them at the time of our great Saviour’s birth.

2025 Christmas Hampers Packing Has Wrapped! Check back for 2026 Detail.

📍 Macquarie Chapel Presbyterian Church | 2 Herring Rd, Marsfield NSW 2122

SAVE THE DATE! Packing will be held across 7 days from Fri 21st Nov to Thu 27th Nov 2025 with multiple timeslots available to help out.

See bellow for more details on church nominations, volunteer forms, donations and others ways you can help this year.

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GET INVOLVED in 2026

Contribute to Hampers

Donate funds

To be able to provide hampers outside of Sydney, we need funds. If you would like to assist us with this and enable our regional churches to bless their local areas in this way, please donate funds to the project. To donate, click the button below and choose the option “Packed with Love Hampers” as the purpose of donation.

Contribute Food Items

You or your church can help by collecting the items needed for these hampers and delivering them to our team to pack or arranging for us to collect your donations If you would like to assist us with this, click the link bellow to register your church.

Please note: all collected food items must not have an expiry date before February 2026.

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Volunteer your Help

Help pack hampers and gifts

Once we have collected all the goods and finalised our list of recipients, we hold a big packing weekend. It’s a huge task to put together the food boxes and allocate gift items, so we would love all the help we can get! There’s all sorts of jobs that need doing, such as labelling boxes, sorting items, selecting gifts, taping hampers, and more! 

If you’re in Sydney and are willing and able to join us at the packing location at Macquarie Chapel Presbyterian Church at some point during the packing week, we would love your help. Packing will take place from Friday 21st Nov to Thursday 27th Nov 2025. At various points throughout that week, there will be plenty of things to do to put together the hampers and gifts.

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Help transport and deliver

At the end of the packing process, we are left with stacks of food boxes and gifts that need to be taken to various places and churches for distribution. It you have got a large car or trailer, and a bit of free time, we would love your help to get the hampers where they need to go. Fuel costs will be covered.

We aim to have all hampers and gifts delivered or collected in the first week of December. If you are interested in helping out, get in touch with the team.

Church Nominations for 2025

Let us know how many hampers your church would like to receive this year.

WHAT ITEMS CAN BE DONATED?

Food items

Choose an item that you would like to collect and let us know how many you are aiming to get – this helps us plan amounts!

Please note: all collected food items must not have an expiry date before February 2027.

Drop off locations include:

  • Allowah, in Dundas Valley (2117)
  • Macquarie Chapel, in Marsfield (2122)
Get in touch to confirm drop-off time and date, or to discuss other locations to drop off! 
GIFT items

A small gift will be given in the hampers, and we try to provide a gift for every child and teen based on age and gender.

Please leave the gifts unwrapped so we can see what it is.

Click on the category to see some suggested items for each age group:

    • colouring pencils
    • ball
    • activity book
    • doll
    • soft toy
    • blocks
    • hat
    • or similar!
    • board game
    • sporting equipment
    • book
    • pencil case
    • stationary
    • skipping rope
    • craft kit
    • or similar!
    • watch
    • USB drive
    • drink bottle
    • book
    • art set
    • sporting equipment
    • bag or backpack
    • puzzles
    • sunglasses
    • or similar!
    • personal care items
    • stationary
    • candle
    • sunglasses
    • drink bottle
    • earphones
    • socks
    • or similar!
Want to get involved?​

Contact the us at partnership@jerichoroad.org.au.

Have a question? Click below to get in touch with the Partnership and Engagement team.