PROVIDING CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR 30 KIDS
Angel Tree is a ministry that reaches out to children and families of inmates with the love of Christ. Through the purchase, wrapping, and delivering of gifts on behalf of their incarcerated parent, we get to be a part of not only delivering a message of love from parent to child, but also delivering the true meaning of Christmas - the good news of Jesus Christ.
We are SO EXCITED to have launched our involvement with Angel Tree this past weekend - first, at our Liberty Sisterhood Vintage Christmas Party on Friday night, and then at both our Tribeca and Union Square services this weekend. The response has already been overwhelming, and because of the big hearts of our church community, 30 kids will be feeling the love of not only their parent, but the love of Jesus Christ this holiday season.
This year through our new charitable organization “Liberty City”, Liberty Church is providing Christmas gifts to 30 children - ages 10 months to 18 years old - who don’t get to celebrate the holiday with a parent. Not only do we get to purchase gifts on behalf of the child’s parent in prison, but we also have the beautiful and unique opportunity to personally deliver these gifts as a group to the children. The names and ages of each child can be found on the Angel Tree displayed at both the Tribeca service and the Union Square service in the guest lounge. Each child has their own angel ornament with a personal message from their parent, and the parent’s suggestion for a gift.
This past weekend, before and after each service, our community gathered around the angel tree and chose ornaments with the names of the children they will buy gifts for. Because of the great response, we believe that each child we were assigned will be blessed with not just one gift, but two! The second gift every child receives is a gift from Liberty Church, so each child will know that not only is their parent thinking of him/her, but our Liberty communities are thinking of them as well.
If you haven’t yet signed up, but want to provide a special gift to one of our 30 children this Christmas, visit the guest lounge before or after services next weekend. You can sign up to join a delivery group as well, when we’ll take the gifts to the children. Unwrapped gifts should be brought to either morning or evening service on December 18th. Let’s make this Christmas unforgettable for these 30 kids!
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Post by: Chad & Shawna
