Tonight I'm going shopping--for about 150 people! It's not that my family and friends' list is that long. I'm joining the middle and senior high youth from Christ Lutheran. We are meeting tonight at 7:00 at the church and heading over to a Super K-Mart to buy Christmas gifts for families that may not otherwise have a Merry Christmas. After shopping for each child by name, gender, age and size we come back to the church and pull an all-nighter wrapping them (sans-Scott!)
Last year, Nathan had the opportunity to help deliver the presents and left-over trees. It was pretty eye-opening. He remembers going into one home, bringing in the tree and helping a boy about his age set it up in the living room. It was the only thing in the entire room. And then the presents came to the squealing delight of the younger siblings. It makes you realize just how much we have (and take for granted).
If you don't already know this, we have some great kids here at CLC. They love their church, enjoy hanging out with the youth, have some wonderful adult leaders and are making an impact on the world. These are the critical years to establish a rock-solid lifelong foundation.
I'm thrilled that tonight, I can lay just one of those stones for these kids.
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