- Serve or prepare meals at a soup kitchen.
- Bring presents to children or elderly people in the hospital.
Clean, repair and refurbish a church in a poor neighborhood.
Visit someone who’s shut-in. - Send a Christmas card to someone you have not seen or talked to in years.
Invite a friend or neighbor who will be alone to share your Christmas celebration. - Reconcile with a friend or relative with whom you have quarreled. Apologize if you were wrong.
- Provide transportation to shelters for homeless people.
- Wish people you meet a good day and a happy and holy Christmas.
- Get the family together to clean out all the closets and dressers. Donate usable clothing, shoes, blankets and other items to a program for needy families.
- Send care packages to military personnel stationed overseas.
- Sing Christmas carols at nursing homes or hospitals.
- Collect baby clothes, blankets, food, diapers or money and donate these items to an organization that helps needy people.
- Supply car seats or cradles to underprivileged mothers.
- Sponsor a drive for children to donate their old toys to youngsters.
- Be a part of the holiday spirit by undertaking one or more of the items listed above and help make Christmas merry for someone else and yourself.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Keep Christ in Christmas
Giving that the Knights of Columbus are a religious group, each Christmas they celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Every year the Knights dedicate their time in reminding society that Christmas is a holy day. They use their "Keep Christ in Christmas" campaign. Hers's a list from their website that they have given to help guide people of the ways they can support the cause:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
It's cool that they do all that service work. I didn't know they did all that.
ReplyDelete