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.
2026 Christmas Hampers are Happening!
📍 Macquarie Chapel Presbyterian Church | 2 Herring Rd, Marsfield NSW 2122
SAVE THE DATE! Packing will be held on:
- Fri 20th Nov
- Sat 21st Nov
- Mon 23rd Nov
See bellow for more details on church nominations and others ways you can help this year.
Church Nominations for 2026
Nominations
Jericho Road works with and for the Presbyterian Church and the Packed with Love Ministry is conducted through Presbyterian Churches and ministries. Please note that any nominations should be made by a Presbyterian Church or ministry and the team may get in contact with church leaders to confirm nominations received.
To request hampers for your church outreach, simply identify those in need and submit your request using the link below before our strict cut-off on Sunday, 25th October 2026.
All confirmed allocations must be collected in person from Macquarie Chapel on Tuesday, 24th November or Wednesday, 25th November 2026.
Please note: total hamper numbers are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. No deliveries available.
Fill out the form by clicking the button below:
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, please send us an email.
Please note: all collected food items must not have an expiry date before February 2027.
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.
until we begin packing!
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.
Packed with Love Resources
WHAT ITEMS CAN BE DONATED?
Food items
Please email us if your church would like to contribute food items this year.
Please note: all collected food items must have an expiry date after February 2027.
Drop off locations include:
- Allowah, in Dundas Valley (2117)
- Macquarie Chapel, in Marsfield (2122)
GIFT items
Please email us if your church would like to contribute gift items this year.
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 they are.
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
- stationery
- 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
- stationery
- candle
- sunglasses
- drink bottle
- earphones
- socks
- or similar!
Want to get involved?
Contact the us at partnership@jerichoroad.org.au.