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olosos

No way to help with Christmas

Hey, DOC Posts: 90 **11/24/15 6:03 pm**

How do you handle...or where do you go to get help for someone at Christmas time?

I pastor a small church...which I'm sure you know means limited funds available. We have a couple who is needing help with Christmas for their child....who is a 13 yr old. They both work...have their own home...older son in college... Pay tithes...attend church...live right.

Even with both working they don't have much left after bills.

I need help finding some help for them. All of the local charities either are at their limits, or the parents don't qualify because of income....or because the child is 13....(can get help if he was 12).

So my question to you is....where can I get help for this couple?

Nature Boy Florida

Acts-pert Poster Posts: 16641 **11/24/15 6:18 pm**

Why wouldn't someone at your church see the need and meet it?
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Dave Dorsey

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 13654 **11/24/15 6:19 pm**

Can you receive an offering without letting folks know who it's for?

We do a program called Stars for Children. We are a bigger church (300-350) but we still have a large number of families in need. Each star has an age and a gender, and an idea about what the child would like, and folks who are more well off take the stars and make it happen. The church then gets the wrapped gifts to the families in need and no one ever learns who they are.

Cojak

Serious Question

01000001 01100011 01110100 01110011 Posts: 24284 **11/24/15 8:00 pm**

What is considered satisfactory for a 13 yr old's Christmas? Confused

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Aaron Scott

Make your request known...

Hon. Dr. in Acts-celeratology Posts: 6039 **11/24/15 8:23 pm**

If you can come up with some idea of what to do for them that would be fitting and wise, why not do so, then tell us so that we can contribute?

Some dear friends on this site have been so generous and kind as to send checks to our church as a way of joining in faith with what God was doing. How I love them!

Why not come up with what you think would work...and then let us know how we can support it?

God bless.

Eddie Robbins

Acts-pert Poster Posts: 16509 **11/25/15 6:30 am**

Where my wife works, instead of the employees giving gifts to the bosses or to each other, they pick out a couple of needy families that also work there and give to them. It's usually money for their Christmas.

olosos

Hey, DOC Posts: 90 **11/25/15 3:27 pm**

Dave Dorsey

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 13654 **11/25/15 4:02 pm**

If five people gave five bucks, you could get him a gift card. If ten people gave five bucks, you could get him a real nice gift card and too many bags of cheese puffs to carry.

I think we have the tendency to look at our own meager capabilities and think that any gift we give would not be enough. The truth is that anything is better than nothing. I wouldn't worry if your congregation can't do a lot. Just do something and trust God to give the increase.

Cojak

01000001 01100011 01110100 01110011 Posts: 24284 **11/25/15 6:42 pm**

Happy Thanksgiving to you. Plse check your PM's.
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Aaron Scott

olosos...address? How can we get funds to you for this family?

Hon. Dr. in Acts-celeratology Posts: 6039 **11/25/15 8:29 pm**

Love ya, bro.

olosos

Thanks..

Hey, DOC Posts: 90 **11/26/15 5:04 pm**

First....thanks for the help and ideas....

Someone asked or mentioned about messaged asking amount that was needed to help the family. I really don't know how to answer except that any amount would help.

So far $ 75 has been put in the mail....that will help a lot....thanks so much. I

Some has also asked about sizes. Here is what the mother has told me:

Pants 12 slims

Shirts 10 - 12

Shoe youth 7

Thanks again

olosos

Hey, DOC Posts: 90 **12/1/15 3:35 pm**

So far a $ 100 has been donated so far. When it arrives I will give it to the mother and let her know it came from some special friends.

Thanks so much

olosos

Hey, DOC Posts: 90 **12/2/15 9:11 pm**

Praise God...

The first donation had came in the mail today.