Christmas is an easy time to involve groups in your church in a missions project. There are just so many possibilities! Look over this list and see if something might interest you.

• Bake cookies with friends and deliver them to neighbors, schools, businesses, police stations, fire departments, or Laundromats.
• Make personal care kits for a homeless shelter or day center where people gather. Fill zip lock bags with lip balm, adhesive bandages, hand lotion, nail file, disposable razor, and other similar items. Check with the organization for other suggestions.
• Sign up to be a bell ringer for the Salvation Army. Did you know that many times they have to pay people to ring? One home schooling family plays Christmas carols on several instruments instead of ringing. You could do that also or sing carols.
• Contact the juvenile detention center and see if you can provide a Christmas party for the kids.
• Get involved with the angel tree project – www.angeltree.org
• Adopt a family and provide Christmas dinner, including gifts for the children.
• Provide break room snacks for employees at a retail store. The employees will love the extra attention during this stressful season.
• Hand out rolls of tape outside a shopping center for wrapping Christmas gifts.
• Place a small tabletop size artificial tree with attached Christmas tracts in a pre-arranged business or doctor’s waiting room with a sign that says “take one.” Re-supply the tree throughout the season and don’t forget to pick it up after Christmas.