Global and Local Outreach

Unwrap your present thinking

Are you already getting that hurried, harried pre-Christmas rush feeling?

Consider making Christmas a more Christ-centered holiday and take the opportunity cut back on shopping and spending. Instead, spend more time on favorite activities together, helping someone in the community or on making some of your gifts. There are many worthwhile options to consider, but we would like to highlight some of the possibilities:

ELCA Good Gifts: Choose a gift from the ELCA Good Gifts catalog. $10 donated might provide a family with 10 chicks or a fruit tree seedling or 1 or 2 mosquito bednets to help prevent malaria. $30 to $50 could provide a pig or a goat through the God’s Global Barnyard program. Visit www.elca.org/giving or call 1-800-638-3522.

Heifer International: Gifts to Heifer provide livestock to families in developing countries for long-term livelihood and sustenance. Call 1-800-422-0755 or visit www.heifer.org/gift.

Global Health Ministries: Global Health Ministries, based in Fridley, collects unused medical products and provides a way to get them and other medical assistance to people in developing countries. Call 763-586-9590 or visit www.ghm.org.

Fair Trade Products: Your purchase of Fair Trade products benefits farmers and handicraft workers in developing countries. Check these out as hostess gifts or buy a gift basket containing several products. Fair Trade Handicraft products can be ordered through Serve International. Call 1-888-294-9660 or visit www.lwr.org/handcraft or visit the Ten Thousand Villages store on Grand Ave. in St. Paul.

First Lutheran’s Mubi Partnership: Give a gift to help support an evangelist in the outreach areas in Nigeria as part of First Lutheran’s companion congregation relationship with LCCN #1 Mubi. You can support an evangelist for a month for $30. Write checks to FLCC with “Mubi Evangelist Support” written on the memo line.

NEAR Foodshelf: Food items needed for Christmas baskets: Stuffing mix, pumpkin and yams, pineapple and cranberries, fruit cocktail, cookies and candy, canned oranges, pie mix, canned milk, corn and green beans, money to buy meat certificates.

NEAR Teen Christmas List
Teen Boy: Sporting equipment, model planes, radios, clock radios, calculators, billfolds, sweatshirts, inexpensive watches, flashlights, hand-held games (no casino games), sport bags, light blue jeans, games, hair dryers, c.d.’s, Vikings jerseys or sweatshirts.

Stocking Stuffers: Playing cards, pkgs. of razors and shaving cream, socks, t-shirts, boxer shorts, toothbrushes and toothpaste, baseballs and hockey pucks, softballs, shampoo, any hygiene products.

Teen Girl: Curling irons, hair dryers, make-up bags, large mirrors, video games, radios with earphones, clock radios, room decorations, sweaters, turtlenecks, sport bags, night shirts, make-up kits, sweatshirts, manicure kits, large gaudy purses.

Stocking Stuffers: Nail clippers, shampoo, socks, underwear, journals, facial lotions, hair ribbons and accessories, softballs, lipsticks and cologne, hygiene products, toothbrushes and toothpaste.

Volunteers are needed to assist in the distribution of Toys for Tots and Christmas gifts on Friday-Saturday, December 10/11. Call Shirley Small at 763-537-2636.

Caring and Sharing Hands, and other local opportunities: These congregational outreaches are important ways that we can help those in our community.

Remember that God’s math doesn’t add up–it multiplies! Even a little can do a lot. Small gifts come together to make a big difference for neighbors in need around the world and close to home. All donations are greatly appreciated.

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