2016 Alternative Christmas Gift Catalog: Choose gifts that help people in need and change lives

Offer Jesus Christ to a hurting world this Christmas by choosing one or more of the below gift-giving opportunities.

Memphis Conference agencies and ministries were invited to submit 2016 gift-giving opportunities by Oct. 18 for the second annual Memphis Conference Alternative Christmas Gift Catalog.

Click on one or more of the below links (in alphabetical order by sponsoring agency/ministry) for information about making direct gifts to remember Christ’s birth. Consider making Christmas gifts in honor or memory of friends and loved ones. Gifts support the meaningful work of these ministries.

These Christmas gift-giving opportunities are managed by the sponsoring ministries. Each one is set up differently to receive gifts by mail, email, telephone and online.

Cornerstone Preparatory School (Christ United Methodist Church) | Memphis, TN

• Help Children Learn to Read and Love Books 

Crockett County Churches | Crockett County, TN

• Crockett Christmas Store

 Emmanual United Methodist Church | Memphis, TN

• Room in the Inn
• Project Transformation

 Golden Cross Senior Residents Fund | Memphis, TN 

• Wesley Family Christmas 2016 

 Hannah’s Hope | Memphis, TN

• Alternative Christmas Giving

 Highland Heights United Methodist Church | Memphis, TN

• A Christmas Gift for the Year  

 Jacob’s Well United Methodist Church | Memphis, TN

• Bring Hope for the Holidays  

 Lakeshore Camp and Retreat Center | Eva, TN 

• Christmas Gift Certificates
• Christmas Cards 

 Reelfoot Rural Ministries | Obion, TN

• Christmas Gift List

 United Methodist Neighborhood Centers | Memphis, TN

• Sponsor Children in Mission Caring

 Western Kentucky United Methodist Family Services | Paducah, KY

• Foster Christmas Child Project 

**Article courtesy of Memphis Conference UMC news, http://www.memphis-umc.net/news