Christmas Giving

If you’re wanting to give monetarily this Christmas season, I encourage you to check out Samaritan’s Purse’s online gift catalog for people in need. They have an amazing variety of incredible options: for instance, you can feed a hungry baby for a week, for only $9. What an incredible thing to spend $9 on. Also, sponsoring a child through Compassion or another organization is a wonderful way to give both material and relational assistance to a child in poverty, and it costs just over $1 a day.

Then there are two ways to give that cost you nothing except a little time. People are harnessing the advertising revenue of the Internet to fight poverty. GoodSearch.com is a search engine powered by Yahoo!. Before you start searching, you choose a charity to give to, and the money from your searches goes to that charity. What a great idea. The other is FreeRice.com. Merely by answering vocabulary questions, you can donate hundreds and thousands of grains of rice to people in poverty. Another amazing idea!