With an alternative Christmas gift, you honor your loved ones and make a difference in the lives of people around the world at the same time.
These gifts don’t get returned because the recipient already has one. Instead the return comes with knowing someone has been helped in your name. Alternative Christmas gifts are perfect for the person who has everything. Even children will smile when they know they have helped a child have a home or go to school.
Here are the projects That Good Shepherd is supporting this year at the Mission Gift Fair, to be held after both worship services on Nov. 13, 20, 27 and Dec. 4.
Family Village Farm - a home, community and school for children and adults without families and homes in India. (A Global Ministries Project)
Edna Hospital in Somaliland, East Africa - a hospital dedicated to improving maternal and infant health care, and to fighting the practice of female genital mutilation.
Composting toilets - being built in areas of Nogales, Sonora which have no sanitary facilities and where open sewage runs in the streets.
Water Missions International - an engineering organization that serves the water and sanitation needs of people in developing countries and disaster areas.
Pachamama Alliance - works in South America to preserve the earth’s tropical rain forests by empowering its indigenous people.