CHRISTMAS UNSHOPPING
Buy NOTHING this Chrismas
Give no gifts this Christmas.
Explain to your family that you are using your economic power to help the poorest by giving no gifts. Often, the gifts we give are useless or unwanted.
Instead, make gifts or cards which are much more personal.
Join the Advent conspiracy
Give Christmas gifts directly to the poor by buying presents through Oxfam Unwrapped, Christian Blind Mission Gifts of Life or the Tear Fund.
GIVE to the needy
IN AUSTRALIA, some examples:
Christmas Bowl
The Mutunga Partnership
Christian Blind Mission
Oxfam
Anglicare
PRAY differently
More silence
More meditation
More reflective reading of Scripture
Fewer words
Different symbols (candles, ikons, etc.)
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