Jesus is Coming Merry Christmas Campaign">Jesus is Coming Merry Christmas Campaign

Have you heard about my "Jesus is Coming Merry Christmas Campaign" yet?  Oh…you haven’t….

Well, let me tell you all about it.  A few years ago I decided that I was going to spread Christmas cheer to people in my neighborhood.  So I went and bought about 100 candy canes and found a place where there was a lot of people and handed them out.  It was totally fun and I loved it.

This year I revisited the idea and the Lord has already blessed my efforts this year!  Let me tell you what happened on Saturday when I stepped out in faith and started buying the gem stones for this years project and my candy canes.

I was in Michael’s (the craft store) searching for my gemstones and other supplies and when I was there I ran into a friend from my old church who gave me a 40% off coupon, which saved me some money…and then when I was checking out there was a lady in front of me in line and she asked me what I was doing.  I had just placed 15 boxes of candy canes in my small cart. So I told her that I was buying materials to put together for my Jesus is Coming Merry Christmas Campaign and she was so tickled by what I was planning on doing that she said that she wanted to be apart of it.  Then she reached into her purse and gave me $20!  Pretty cool huh?

So I spent that $20 with the other money I had and when I came home I was able to get my neighbors to help me put together my little present that I will be handing out to strangers.

Here’s what the project is that we are putting together:

3 Red gems

3 White gems

3-6 Clear gems

3 Green gems

3 Blue gems

1 large candy cane

A pretty clear bag for packaging and of course pretty ribbon to tie it all together.

Then we will be adding a scroll that describes the Christmas message of the stones.

I was hoping that we could hand out at least 500 and so far we have about 76 made up.  So I’ve got a way to go.  I ran out of green stones and when a friend from church found out they gave me another $20 to put towards that!

So I’m on a misson and will be seeing what else we can do.  And I’d like to invite you to help out if you’re as inspired as I am.  Christmas time is the greatest time of the year to surprise people with God’s love.

What are you doing to reach out to someone this year?