Have you ever opened a gift on Christmas Morning and thoroughly disliked it? True story: A friend and I swapped presents once. A fellow-classmate bought me … Well, it was shaped like a ball with sticky-up bits all around, and when you switched it on, it vibrated. I don’t mean just slightly; it jiggled about so much that if you put it on the floor, it would actually move. It was quite freaky, and my sister or my dad would put it in my chair when I was out of the room, so I’d come back in, sit on it and jump out of my skin! I wanted it out of the house as quickly as possible! She bought my friend a set of vanilla toiletries. My friend hates vanilla, so we swapped and all was well. To find that perfect Christmas gift, you need to get to know a person – their likes and dislikes. That’s why I think it’s so important to spend time with friends – because they’ll drop things into a conversation.
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Month: December 2021
it Will Soon be Christmas, By Pastor Peter Norris.
My theme for this devotional is “It will soon be Christmas!”, and I’ll be talking about all the lights that we put up – in our houses, in our churches, and we see up and down our streets. So I just want to share with you my inspiration for this particular devotional.
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Seen, Known, and Loved, By Miriam Corringham.
Our church has been heavily involved in the work of Operation Christmas child for many years. I wish to thank Miriam for writing this beautiful devotional.
Throughout the year we have been raising funds for Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes. Collecting items to go into the boxes, thinking of the children who would receive our boxes and now, after shopping trips, Packing Parties, having shoeboxes dropped off, collecting them from Schools and Churches in the area and cartoning them up ready for collection, our shoeboxes have started on their journey.
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