Tuesday, December 19, 2017

A little blown away

As a member of our church's Christian Ed committee, one of the things I have wanted to do is to increase service opportunities for our students, and for our church as a whole.  Andrew agrees entirely on this matter.  One of the things we decided to do was to adopt a family from our community who might not otherwise have Christmas.  I'll be honest, when it comes to this time of year, I will whip out my wallet for just about anything.  Our family is beyond blessed and I don't ever want to forget that.

Andrew connected with the school district's community liaison and our church adopted three families...one of which has six children.  I was a little concerned that we were responsible for Christmas for eleven children.  I had no reason to be worried.  Not only was every single request filled by our church members, there were at least two families who had wanted to participate and the tags were already gone.  I am blown away by how generous our church was in this situation, and I'm so grateful to be a part of our church community.

This time of year makes me so very emotional about things like this.  I grew up with Christmas being so incredibly magical, and I want to do everything possible to make sure other children have memories like that.  I also hope that I can remember to help spread that feeling throughout the year!

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