It's amazing how fast Christmas has slipped up this year! Local radio stations have already started playing Christmas music, and the stores are stocked up on Christmas wares. That also means it's time for what has become a tradition in our new family ... shoe boxes for orphans :-).
Ever since we started dating, Laura and I have taken the opportunity to go shopping together and fill up some shoeboxes for orphans. Once we have kids we plan on involving them by letting them shop for an orphan their age each year as well. It's something that doesn't take a lot of time or money, but can help chilren who have almost nothing. Most years we try and do at least 4 boxes, but this year the budget is a little tighter so we chose to only do one.
I would encourage each of you to reach out to someone less fortunate this Christmas season, and make a difference. This is something that only takes a few minutes. My wife and did our shoebox this afternoon after church. Took 30min to drop by the dollar store, and we filled our box for only $25. If you would like to participate in filling a shoebox for an orphan they need to be dropped off to a local collection center by November 24th.
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Thanks for mentioning OCC! We started out giving just a couple of boxes our first year (5 years ago or so) and have continued to increase our giving since then. The second year we did 6, then 12 and last year we decided to get out a actively promote the program to others in the community in order to further increase the number of children we could impact. Last year we were able to impact over 65 different children and expect to impact closer to 100 this year.
I've started a company working with the public schools over the last year and I hope to be able to roll out the program to them starting this next year so that we can make an even bigger difference. There's no reason why over 1000 kids can't be impacted each year due to these efforts.
Keep it up, but challenge yourself to do more (even if you don't use your own money to do it)!
yeah, i JUST heard about doing this sorta stuff - freakin' brilliant idea! My sister was creating one herself when i called her over the weekend :)
And i must admit, i'm all for that early Xmas stuff...anything to help cheer us up these days is a-okay w/ me.
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