Christmas Gifts-An Alternative Choice




Christmas is coming!  What a wonderful time of year where we all act our best and try to be a bit nicer.  It is also a great time of year to think about your favorite charities as part of your gift giving.  The idea of alternative gift giving is not new.  Families have been practicing for as long as I have been around and most likely before.  I think Heifer International was one of the first to formalize the idea into a cataloge.  

 Some churches even do special alternative Christmas gift events so you can find the charity you want to support.  

 It is a wonderful idea to give money to help others as a way to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.  Like we actually get the overall idea of what his time on earth was about.  I want to encourage everyone to consider doing at least one alternative Christmas gift this year.  Even if that donation is not to the ministry I work with.  There are a lot of them.

 Here are some good ones you may want to consider:

 Heifer International:  https://www.heifer.org/
Greenville Meals on Wheels (your town has one too!) :  http://www.mealsonwheelsgreenville.org/donate.aspx
Greenville Area Interfaith Hospitality Network (GAIHN-again your town has something like I bet): http://gaihn.org/how-to-help/
Generations Group http://generationsgroup.com/donate/
Want to help those displaced by the devasting fires in TN:  https://dollywoodfoundation.org/
Know someone going on a mission trip or disaster relief effort-help with their costs or give them something they need for the trip.

 Not all of these do cards but I bet everyone here is smart enough they could make their own cards if they wanted to do something like this. 

 I would dare say many of the organizations in your home town would love if you gave yourself an Alternative gift this year-volunteer  your time.  Trust me you will get something in return.  I have never met people who volunteer who don't get something back from the experience.  

 If you would like to give to the ministry I work with, Full Dimensions Ministry, we would appreciate that.  In fact we would appreciate it so much I have created four cards you can print at home and give to the person you make the donation in honor of.  We are going to keep it simple and on the honor system.  You make the donation to Full Dimension Ministry USA, Inc.  PO Box 572, Mauldin SC 29662 and put on the memo line In Honor of____.

 Full Dimension Ministry USA, Inc. is a 501 c(3) non profit tax deductible charity and you can find out more at www.fulldimensionministry.com

 Then you print the card you want and write their name in as well as your own and give it to them.  Since you print the card their is no value to deduct from your tax deductible gift.  Printing tip:  Print the image as a full page and then it is a quarter fold card.  The first card is at the top of the page.  Here are three others:






Location: Arusha, Tanzania

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