An assembly line that normally produces water test kits for Taylor Technologies in Sparks was turned into a Christmas workshop Nov. 15.

About 120 volunteers spent the morning on the assembly line, putting school supplies, toys and other goodies into shoe boxes that will be given to children across the world.

The boxes are being sent to Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse, a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization that provides spiritual and physical aid to people around the world.

“We assembled 2,064 boxes, the most we’ve ever done since we started seven years ago,” said Jeff Mauler, a kit assembly manager for Taylor Technologies. “We were determined to fill up a tractor trailer.”

Mauler said volunteers came from church groups, Girl Scouts, Taylor Technologies and from its corporate partner for the project, Douron Furniture of Owings Mills.

Operation Christmas Child will deliver more than 8 million shoe boxes to children in 90 countries this year.

Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child has distributed 61 million shoe box gifts to children in some 130 countries.

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