The Advent Conspiracy

Church Name: LifePoint Church

This Christmas season we challenged our people to get back to the basics of what Christmas is all about. We challenged the to “run” for consumerism and materialism and spend less on the stuff of this world on more on the stuff of the kingdom. We watched as several of our small groups lead a movement of people who spent Christmas Day at the Salvation Army feeding the homeless and passing out goodie bags that they had spent their Christmas budget on. They then went to Waffle House and had a time of celebration and community. As a church we asked our people to pick out gifts from the world vision catalog and gave that money instead of buying worthless things that none of us need. We raised approx. $6500 of which $2500 went to clean and safe drinking water. Praise be to God who through his birth (incarnation) is teaching us what His coming here was really all about and teaching us what it looks like to be His followers in this culture we find ourselves in.
Thanks advent conspiracy for the challenge and leadership!

How much money was redistributed?: $6500

How much went to water?: $2500

What can we do better?:

Just keep challenging us!

This post was submitted by Joe Tessin.