Alternative Giving: The true Spirit of Christmas

Give a gift that keeps on giving!

Looking for the perfect gift for the person who has everything?

Is your family wanting to make a difference that lasts longer than the Christmas season? 

Consider a gift from one of these organizations. 

You can give a gift in someone's name or request your own.
Here are some agencies that really need your help:



The Heifer Project offers the gift of animals that help to make third-world families self-sufficient (www.heifer.org or 800-422-0755).

Save the Children Fund helps to provide survival, health, education and enterprise for poor families with children all over the world (www.savechildrengifts.org or 800-413-4908).

World Vision offers all kinds of help to empower the world’s poor (www.worldvisiongifts.org or 888-511-6511).

Food for the Poor provides homes, food, animals and clothing to the poor in the Caribbean (www.foodforthepoor.org or 800-427-9104).

Work of Human Hands is the branch of Catholic Relief Services that offers gifts for sale that are made in third world countries that you can give to loved ones (www.crsfairtrade.org or 800-685-7572).

Oxfam offers the opportunity to buy trees, a well, a tent, blankets, emergency rescue equipment for third world countries and people (www.oxfamamericanunwrapped.com or 800-850-7608).

If you would like to see one of these catalogues, please visit the Christian Formation Office or call Mary Janowak 262-796-3944.

At this time of hurting, those in the third world suffer proportionally more than those in the first world. You can truly make a difference! You may want to start a new family tradition of reaching out to others, while curbing our tendency to excess.

This is truly following Jesus.