Warning: This blog is about to be taken over by some of the best minds in the blogosphere. Continued reading may change your view of the Holidays.
Starting tomorrow, and running until Christmas Day, the ChristmasChange blog will host a series of guest writers who will encourage and challenge us as we move toward incarnational celebration. Some of these writers you will, no doubt, know and love. Others may be new to you. Each will bring a fresh take on living ChristmasChange. We cannot wait to see their offerings, so visit us tomorrow as Robin kicks of this ChristmasChange blog mutiny.
In the meantime, please explore the ChristmasChange website, and give us your feedback. While you are there, become a member of our online community, and share your stories and ideas about how you intend to implement change in your family Christmas. Remember: membership has its privileges! And finally, it’s button adding day! Grab the button in the right column and tag it on your blog, facebook page, website, backpack, or jean jacket. Let people know you are changing the way you celebrate the birth of salvation!
Finally, let’s get a little discussion going.
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If you could reduce your spending and support one cause, charity, or missionary this year, what/who would it be, and why? Please leave links so that we may explore each others’ charities, and yes, I am secretly hoping that someone will stop in and write about Real Hope for Haiti.
Real Hope For Haiti from Corrigan Clay on Vimeo.
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I have such a hard time narrowing it down…but I’m a fan of pretty much anything that supports Haiti (you’re welcome). I love the Livesays in Haiti (livesay haiti weblog @ blogspot)
I’m also a big believer in…
Compassion – compassion.com
International Justice Mission – ijm.org
Sorry my links weren’t actually LINKS. It’s early…
I helped you out with links, there. Call it a helping hand. Thanks for dropping the names and charities on us. Can’t wait to see what you have to say soon.
Who else? What one charity/cause/missionary would you support?
Quick question – how do you add the button to facebook? i am a fb newbie and i can’t figure it out.
Katie, I’m not slick with my facebook skills, but I know you can become a fan and then suggest that all your facebook friends follow ChristmasChange.
Can I just say I LOVE “incarnational celebration?”
The narrow down to one thing is hard, but I know we will be supporting our very local food crisis ministry, which does not appear to have a website. It provides immediate food assistance to people in need in the northern part of our county.
Not just because Amber suggested it but because my heart was tugged when we were at the Aaron Ivey home tour.
http://realhopeforhaiti.org
What an awesome idea with some of my favorite bloggers! Can’t wait!
It’s not a huge “cause” but right now we’re really focusing on families we know that need some help. We have so many friends who have been thrown terrible curve balls this past year. Cancer, becoming a single mom suddenly, job loss, giving birth too early and spending lots of time at the NICU… so I think we’re going to focus on helping locally.
I didn’t really answer the question. Excuse my ramblings… if I had to pick just one cause to donate/help with it’d be our local children’s hospital Children’s Hospital of Boston
Here’s a link to International Justice Mission’s Christmas page. You can give the gift of freedom for someone held in oppressive situations (sex trafficking, brothels, work camps, etc) by donating in someone’s name for Christmas. Love it:
https://secure3.convio.net/ijm/site/Ecommerce?store_id=1481&JServSessionIdr003=n1rffinzl2.app303a
This year instead of buying another “thing” for the adult brothers and sisters, we are giving money in their name to Samaritan’s Purse (www.samaritan’spurse.org) to buy chicks for families in need.
We participate in Operation Christmas Child and this year we received a Gift Catalog from Samaritan’s Purse. They have listed 43 items you can buy for people in need ranging from $4 for milk to $25,000 to build a school.
A $14 ‘whatever’ item means little to someone in our country, but $14 to buy a dozen chicks can be life changing for someone in need.
I want to be part of changing lives this Christmas.
oops. it is …. http://www.samaritanspurse.org …
There will be two I’ll be supporting this year. First is our local food pantry, for when we needed the help not long ago, they were there. The second is http://www.indegoafrica.org/ – an organization near and dear to my baby girl’s heart and mine.