iChristmas 2011

With “Black Friday” only a few weeks away, I wanted to take this opportunity to remind everyone about our annual iChristmas campaign.

The ARISE Ministry will once again be celebrating iChristmas. This is an opportunity to live out the true meaning of Christmas. Here is the challenge to our students:

As you are making a Christmas list for your parents, write this on the list: “Please buy me one less gift and put the money you would have spent on that gift into an envelope marked ‘iChristmas’ and put it under the Christmas tree with my other gifts.” The one gift should be more than a pair of socks, but what you are willing to sacrifice is up to you.

Starting on Sunday, December 25, students can turn in their iChristmas money in the ARISE Black Box on the wall in the main lobby.

Each year, the money raised for iChristmas supports a ministry of the Rochester Church. In the past, the ministries we have supported include our missionaries in Rio and Uganda as well as Cass Park. This year, we are planning to contribute all iChristmas funds to the DuBaere Family Fund. (Please make checks out to “Rochester Church of Christ” and write “DuBaere Family Fund” in the memo line.)

Thank you to all of the students who participated in iChristmas in previous years. Continue the iChristmas tradition this year. For those of you who didn’t have an opportunity to give an iChristmas gift last year, make this the year to start a new tradition.

As the push for Christmas begins, please consider what you are going to sacrifice for iChristmas this year. Imagine if 50 people each contributed $20 this year. As a ministry we would collect $1,000. That amount would be a huge blessing to the DuBaere family.

As you think about iChristmas, consider the blessing you could be to another family in our church. You might think $20 isn’t much, but together we could have a huge, positive impact.

 

shine!
Jason