Looking for more meaningful ways to give back this holiday season?
Charity gift certificates.
Go to this website and they’ll let you purchase a gift card in someone’s name and then the recipient can choose their charity.
http://www.charitygiftcertificates.org/Charities.aspx
The gift of clean water.
$85 provides 10-20 years of a clean water filter for a family in Africa. In other words, you’ll help save a family.
http://www.bloodwatermission.com/christmas/
Gift catalog.
Sam’s Purse has a whole catalog of ideas of ways you can help those around the world, and you can determine the amount you want to give.
Gift of freedom.
You can help women, men and children flee slavery and trafficking situations and bring recovery into their lives.
https://secure3.convio.net/ijm/site/Ecommerce?store_id=1481
Beautiful, handcrafted items with fair trade policies. Meaning, the person who made the thing gets the profit. What a concept.
www.tenthousandvillages.com
Things you can do with your family:
- Visit a nursing home and bring a gift to a resident who doesn’t have any family.
- If hosting a party this season, ask each guest to bring a wrapped gift for a child and drop off at a shelter or a grocery item and donate to a food pantry.
- Buy a bag of groceries for a family in need and leave it on their doorstep anonymously.
Matthew 25:40 says, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it undo Me…”
You help someone out, you’re serving Christ himself.Each and every time.
