Christmas Giving Update

Here's a great story from our Christmas Giving. I think we clearly demonstrated what it means to love your neighbour. I know God will use our simple act of kindness to impact these lives with the love of God.

We had a great time delivering the Christmas presents to the motels on Christmas Eve. The experience was a wonderful example of Craig's message the previous week, 'It's more blessed to give'. I was particularly glad that my girls could be apart of it. We were able to actually hand the gifts to maybe 12 out of the 20 people. The rest were put in their rooms for when they came home. Every person was very surprised and appreciative. One young man (18 yrs) was so happy that he started hugging everyone. Another gentleman opened a box of chocolates that he already had in his room and offered them to the children and adults. We had to wait outside the motel office after delivering some of the gifts because the owner had gone to the store and she needed to open the rooms to deliver the rest. So, while we waited, a man came out of his room wearing the hat we had given him and he had a gift wrapped in tissue paper for us. It was a mirrored picture with a poem on it about friendship. I thought that was very touching. We had a father and son who's mother had just passed away. They were very happy to receive their gifts but you could see the sadness in their faces.