Christmas Tree Ornament Ministry
I've heard of lots of churches and groups passing out tracts around the holidays, sometimes even with plates of homemade goodies! But have you ever thought about making and giving away free Christmas Tree ornaments?
This post is part of our Kids Doing Ministry Series.
Last year our family and some friends spent several hours on several different days, cutting, gluing, printing, tying,and bagging our special Christmas tracts.
The Craft
We bought green sheets of foam and traced a cookie cutter to get the shape, then cut out the trees and glued shapes of colored ornaments on them. We punched holes in the tops of the trees and in the top of the small paper with the color explanation and plan of salvation on it and strung them together with wrapping ribbon. Even the 2 and 4 year olds enjoyed helping!
The Gift
The most excitement came however, when we loaded up and went downtown to pass them out. A busy saturday afternoon about a week before Christmas. We stationed ourselves at a busy intersection with lots of pedestrian traffic close to the town square.
Our kids were thrilled to give them to the passersby. It was fun to explain that this was a free gift with a special Christmas message for them. It amazed that all 250 of them (days of work) were handed out in a matter of 20 minutes!
We all agreed that we need to start the crafting process earlier next year, so that we can reach more people with the Good News of the real message of Christmas!
We used the same colors and Gospel tracts on our trees as on the Wordless Book bracelets. Click here for the tree pattern. Get the English or Spanish FREE Gospel printables here.
Does your family have a unique tradition for ministry to others at Christmas time? We'd love for you to tell us about it in the comments!
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Jan says
Years ago when my children were small, I invited my sister-in-law and her kids over and we and our 6 kids made many batches of homemade Christmas cookies and goodies for our local homeless shelter. My kids and I continued this for years until they left for college. I didn’t want to quit doing this and realized it would make a great outreach activity for our kids at church. We always have a Sat. morning Christmas program dress rehearsal early in Dec. and for years now have stayed afterwards for a hot dog lunch and an afternoon of cookie baking. I do the sugar cookies ahead so they are ready to decorate and then bake lots of other kids throughout the afternoon. The kitchen director at the center tell us these are the only homemade Christmas treats they get and always look forward to them. The kids are just as thrilled.