In an attempt to make Christmas look different this year, we are giving Christmas away. Please select an idea from the "Give Christmas Away...Right Now" list and go do it today. Then select an idea from the "This Month" list and do it sometime
during the month of December.
We would love to hear about your experiences. Please email us at givechristmasaway@communitycc.com and tell us what you did, the response of those you served, and how you were blessed as a result.
May God touch many lives this December as we Give Christmas Away!
Click here for KIDZ Giving Christmas Away ideas
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The Lord Jesus himself said: "It is more
blessed to give than to receive."
Acts 20:35 (NIV)
Give Christmas Away...RIGHT NOW
- Clean the house/mow the grass/wash the car of a friend or neighbor.
- Write thank you cards and deliver them with cookies to police officers, firefighters, etc.
- Go out to eat and leave a huge tip.
- Babysit and/or pay for a dinner or movie out for a young couple.
- Buy snacks (chips, cookies, candy) and deliver them to people in a hospital waiting room.
- Buy some poinsettias and deliver them to people in nursing homes.
- "Pay it forward" - pay for the gas/groceries/take-out of a person in line behind you.
- Pay for washers/dryers at a local laundromat.
- Take a game (checkers, dominos, etc.) to a nursing home and play games with some of the residents.
- Make a sack lunch and deliver it to someone who is homeless.
- Babysit for a single parent so he/she can run errands, go Christmas shopping or just enjoy some free time.
Give Christmas Away...THIS MONTH
- Cook for your neighbors. Provide and prepare all the food and invite your neighbors over for dinner.
- Secret Santa: Put together a gift box for an elderly person. Go to a nursing home and find a resident that doesn’t have family visiting them and give them the gift box you prepared.
- Give a Gift Card providing lunch for a week to a co-worker or college student.
- Buy a Gift Card from a local store (Walmart, Target, etc.) and give to a family with children at home.
- Extra plate for dinner: Invite someone who has no family nearby to your home for dinner or out to lunch.
- Research different relief organizations and get involved by helping a child or family in another country.
- www.worldvision.org
- www.samaritanspurse.org
- www.compassion.com
- Have a Garage Sale or sell something you no longer need and give proceeds to an organization that serves the poor or homeless, and then volunteer there.
- Cooperative Feeding Program: (954) 792-2328
- Broward Outreach Center: (954) 979-6365
- Christmas Meal Cloning: Plan out your Christmas dinner menu, buy double of everything, and place the extra in a box. Take it to a family that would be blessed by the gift.
- Clean out closets and donate your extra clothes to a relief agency.
- Broward Outreach Center: (954) 979-6365
- 4KIDS of South Florida: (954) 979-7911
- Invite an elderly person who doesn’t drive at night to go with you to see Christmas lights.
- Purchase pizzas and deliver them to your child’s school for the Teachers’ Lounge.
- Take your newspaper or a favorite book to a nursing home and find someone who would enjoy having you read it to them.
