The Poverty Tree
When the church put up it’s christmas tree dont decorate it but instead announce to the congregation if they want to see they tree looking fantastic they can help by deciding on a way to eleviate poverty somewhere in the world. Then to take a paper decoration and write on it what they have or are going to do, they don’t have to put a name to it. If they add a decoration they must however do what they say they will.
The tree in the church was awesome and people gave cows to Africa, fruit tees, goats hens, supported homeless projects, local hospicesor comitted to vising the elderly. It was truly inspiring, and children decided on their own to give pocket money to certain things. I hope to see this again next Christmas.
It helps to have a display giving people ideas about what they could do.
