Simplify Your Gift Giving
The season of buying Christmas presents for family, friends, and co-workers is upon us and wonderfully coincides with the Church’s Advent season.
Advent is a season of preparation to meet the newborn Savior and to rejoice and acclaim Christ crucified and risen. Traditionally, Advent incorporates spiritual practices that include Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving (helping those in need).
This Advent & Christmas season, rather than rushing around buying stuff, prayerfully consider alternative gift options, fast from self-indulgence and spending money, and re-direct your choices to support those most in need.
Give the gift of hope!
HOW IT WORKS
Give a Christmas gift to family members of our adopted Christmas families or make a financial donation to Family of Woodstock, Incorporated. Better still, make the gift in honor of someone special!
Thank you to all who donated unwrapped Christmas gifts! They were blessed today during worship and will be delivered to Family of New Paltz this coming week.
If you still wish to donate, and are able, you can do so by making a financial gift to Family of New Paltz.
- Click to download a card
- Print it, fold it
- Check the gift(s) that you made on behalf of the recipient
- Add Who The Gift Is From
- Add a customized note
Through your generosity, your gifts will help provide much needed support to those in need in our local community
Thanks to God in Christ, we can be resurrected from viewing and moving through this season solely with stress and anxiety and instead delve more deeply into our faith - perhaps including practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving - as we journey to the manger to meet the newborn Savior – light and Life for the world and for us all.