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ABOUT THE Alternative Christmas Market The Christian tradition, especially during Christmas, includes sharing in ways that promise renewal for ourselves and others. The purpose of the Alternative Christmas Market is to provide people with the opportunity to give Christmas gifts that will bring the true joy of Christmas to the giver, the recipient and to those who are in need. With the market, everyone has the opportunity to: • Visit information booths to find out more about the various missions our church supports. Bring your children and grandchildren to help them learn about giving to the community. • Decide which missions you wish to support and fill out the price sheet. • Support your favorite causes with a financial contribution by check, cash or credit card. Cash or check payment avoids service fees. • Select a card and insert that describes the contribution you made for the people on your shopping list. You can use the card and insert as your Christmas gift. • 100% of your contributions are sent to the organizations you specify. The gifts are representative of the services provided by the organizations and the organization is informed of the specific gift you selected. USE CAMERA TO SCAN QR CODE GIVE ONLINE Scan the QR Code or visit the website to give online at: villagechurch.org/alternative-christmas-market Your Gift Makes A Difference!
Amor Ministries COME. BUILD. HOPE. For 41 years, Amor’s mission has been to serve the local church and keep families together. Although COVID-19 has changed many things in the past year and a half, our mission remains the same. After delay from the pandemic, we are back hosting groups in Mexico and are again inviting church teams to join us serving families and building homes. Thanks to our supporters, our Mexico team has still been able to provide homes for 52 families. Please support our Mexico team as they continue to serve alongside their neighbors in their communities. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION $60 Food for a family Provides food for a family of four for 1 week Donate toward a complete house sponsorship. Each house is $30 House Sponsorship $3,780 and provides short-term jobs for 14 local workers.
Care House For over 25 years Care House has served homeless and at risk youth within San Diego. For the past 24 months we primarily have worked with title I schools reaching out to impoverished youth and their families with the essentials to survive. Moving forward — Care House will continue to offer food, clothing, emergency assistance, as well as focusing on the academics of our low income children targeting at- risk students who have fallen behind due to the effects of the pandemic. Serving children through assistance from our partners, giving all the glory to God for His love and provisions for HIS children. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Your gift provides food, toiletries, and other $50 Family Support Pack necessities for a family in need. Your gift provides books, gift cards, snacks, Classroom $200 and other essentials to support the physical and Support Pack educational needs of local students.
Deacons Ministry (The Village Church) The ministry of the deacons is to represent the care and presence of Christ to the Church Family and surround community. Deacons care for those physically and spiritually in need. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Your gift purchases hygiene and non-perishable food Essential Supplies items included in gift bags which are assembled by the Village $10 for the Homeless Church Deacons. These bags are available to the congregation to hand out to homeless they encounter. Help a Church Your gift maintains a benevolence fund that allows us to help those in the church who need emergency aid due to $30 Member or Family unexpected medical expenses, job loss, due to disaster in Need or other similar needs.
Elma Barnett Centre Kamonong, Kenya OUR MISSION The Elma Barnett Children’s Centre supports vulnerable children in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya. Children of primary school age and above who are orphaned or from non-functioning families are provided physical, emotional, and spiritual care through their highest level of education (high school, trade school, college). The Children’s Centre and Elma Kamonong High School are centered in Christ’s love and compassion and are aimed at empowering at-risk children to become young adults with integrity who are self-sufficient, responsible members of Kenyan society. The students are expected to “give back” after they leave, serving as mentors and role models to their brothers and sisters coming up behind them. In the Swahili language, “Walindwa” means “the ones who are guarded or protected.” PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Your gift goes toward a fun, educational field trip to A Day Out $100 Lake Nakuru National Park for approximately 40 children for the Kids including transportation, lunch, and park entry. Your gift contributes to a scholarship fund assisting $30 Scholarship Fund un-sponsored students who have completed high school to pursue trade school or college education.
Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo ETSC was founded by Presbyterians in 1863 on the houseboat Ibis, which was used as a floating seminary for theological studies and practical training. This houseboat used to sail upriver from Aswan in the South to Cairo in the North, where students received lessons from their teachers in the morning and were then trained to do practical ministry in various villages in the evening. In 1926, the current campus was established with the purchase of land in Al-Abbasiya in central Cairo. The seminary has grown to 400 students who are engaged in both theological study and practical ministry. With COVID-19 still very present the number of students studying online has increased dramatically and this has created an increased need for technological support. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Technology Your gift helps to support our $25 Infrastructure seminary technology infrastructure. Your gift goes toward providing scholarships $75 Scholarship Fund to seminary students in need.
Grace Vista Presbyterian Church What happened to the days when you could ask your neighbor for a cup of sugar or an egg? Our high-tech digital culture projects a perception of community while so many people suffer isolated in crowded living environments. God because flesh and moved in o our community in the person of Jesus Christ (John 1:1-14) Grace Presbyterian Church exists to be the hands and feel of Jesus Christ wherever we find ourselves. Our various community programs are a catalyst to developing friendships and empowering one another towards righteousness. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Help a needy family $20 Your gift purchases toys, clothing or food for a needy family for Christmas Your gift contributes to a scholarship funds Scholarship for $50 to enable children of low income families to Summer Bible Camp attend Summer Children’s Bible Week.
A Heart for Children A Heart For Children (AHFC) — founded on Christian principles and faith—serves the impoverished rural areas of Bali, Indonesia. We care for the orphans and widows, feed the hungry and clothe the naked, in obedience to Jesus’s teaching. The center of our ministry is Michael’s Home, a safe house for orphans and abandoned children. “We care for the little ones…when no one else is able to support them.” The children receive food, clothing, education, health care, Christian teaching, love and safety. Many would otherwise be swept up into human trafficking. Lives are transformed. Michael’s Home is also the center from which we serve the community, providing assistance to: 1. Poor kids (especially girls) who cannot attend public school because their families cannot afford uniforms, shoes, backpacks, and school supplies. 2. Widows abandoned by their families and old women discarded by their husbands 3. Abandoned mothers with small children: childcare while they work; rent for a small apartment and food. In return, they help out at Michael’s Home. 4. Talented and motivated students who desire to complete university education and give back to the community. 100% of all donations go directly to the children and widows we support. No overhead. All volunteer. USA registered 501(c)3 non-profit charity so donations are tax-deductible. For more information: https://aheartforchildren.org PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Enable 1 Child Your gift provides a uniform, shoes, socks, underwear, $30 to Attend School backpack, and school supplies for 1 child. In need Christmas Presents Your gift goes toward buying clothing $30 for 1 Child and toys for 1 child in need.
Homeless Veterans Initiative (The Village Church) In partnership with five North County Presbyterian churches and Interfaith Community Services, the Homeless Veterans Initiative helps supply household items to homeless veterans as they setup permanent housing. Purchase a bed or a complete Move-In Kit that will support a homeless veteran in setting up permanent housing. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION $150 Purchase a Bed Your gift purchases a new bed for a homeless veteran. Complete Your gift outfits an entire home for $650 Move-In Kit a homeless veteran’s family of 4.
Hope Unlimited Hope Unlimited for Children exists to transform the lives of children at mortal risk in Brazil, providing them and their future generations a productive future and eternal hope. We provide residential care and vocational training for street children in Brazil, equipping them with the skills they need to get good jobs and break the cycle of poverty. Everything we do points them to the transformational love of Jesus Christ, offering kids with no hope “Hope Unlimited.” PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Your gift provides a welcome gift bag with a toothbrush, toothpaste, teddy bear, picture frame, and other small items, $25 Welcome Gift Bag which may be the first gifts some of these children have ever received. Vocational training program offers certification and Vocational Training guaranteed job placement in highly demanded fields like $100 Materials auto body repair, food preparation, and office management. Your gift will purchase instructional materials for their courses.
Ladle Fellowship Relationship based evangelism and discipleship are at the heart of all we do. We aim to proclaim the good news of salvation through Christ; to help homeless believers and others in seeking a biblically ordered life; and to become more deeply committed disciples ourselves. We desire to bring God glory as we work to build and expand Christ’s kingdom. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION $10 Blanket and a Bible Your gift provides blankets and Bibles for the homeless. Your gift provides cold and flu kits $40 Cold and Flu Kit to help the homeless who fall ill.
Mission Commission (The Village Church) “Then Jesus came to them and said, “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:18-20 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8 As fully devoted disciples of Jesus Christ our vision is to obey and fulfill his Great Commandment and his Great Commission by actively sharing the gospel in word and deed throughout the world. Our mission is to enable and mobilize VCPC members and friends to glorify God in proclaiming his Gospel in word and deed beyond our congregation through local and global outreach ministries. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Your gift supports various mission programs world-wide Unexpected Needs of $25 by allowing us to help partners with special programs our Mission Partners and unexpected needs as they arise. Over 500 Afghan children, women and men are arriving or have arrived in San Diego since their abrupt departure Provide Help to $50 from Afghan. They are in great need of funds, food, clothing Afghan Evacuees and places to stay. Partnering with Safe Harbor and African Alliance we are bringing support.
New Day Urban Ministries In a Christ-centered environment, New Day Urban Ministries restores lives by equipping those in need to move forward with hope. We do this by providing essential services to the homeless, urban poor, veterans, and those recently released from prison in a safe and home-like setting, where people are treated with dignity, respect, and compassion. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Birth Certificate Your gift covers the administrative costs of obtaining $35 Replacement Service replacement birth certificates for our clients. Your gift provides protective foot wear and tools Steel-Toe Boots $65 for our clients in industrial fields such as construction, and Tools and food service.
The Outreach Foundation Engaging God’s people in God’s work in the world by: Helping the church live out its missional calling Building the capacity of the global church, especially where the church is vulnerable or growing rapidly, as together we • Cultivate deep, long-term relationships • Support the work of missionaries • Help each other equip leaders, plant and build churches, and strengthen ministries of compassion Transforming lives through mission involvement PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Birth Certificate Your gift covers the administrative costs of obtaining $35 Replacement Service replacement birth certificates for our clients. Your gift provides protective foot wear and tools Steel-Toe Boots $65 for our clients in industrial fields such as construction, and Tools and food service.
Plant with Purpose Plant With Purpose helps rural farmers around the world to reverse poverty and deforestation through regenerative farming, tree planting, economic development and spiritual renewal. These families becomes agents of their own transformation. The Village Church has supported several mission trips to Southern Mexico and has seen first hand the life-changing impact of this training and support. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Trees provide a foundation for agroforestry and the $25 Plant Trees resurrection of dry and degraded land. You’ll help feed families and positively impact our plant
Presbyterian Council for Chaplains & Military Personnel From the founding of our nation, Presbyterian Chaplains, along with clergy from many faith groups, have served the Armed Forces of our country with distinction. Early on, however, the need to establish standards for clergy serving in the military became evident; therefore, the religious community and the military established an “Ecclesiastical Endorsement” (certification) for all chaplains serving the men and women in the Armed Forces. The Department of Defense now defines the requirements for all religious leaders who wish to serve as chaplains. The PCCMP helps our denominations ensure that our ministers meet and maintain DoD standards. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Postage for Spiritual Pays postage to send devotional $10 Materials to Deployed materials to deployed chaplains. Chaplains Scholarship to Attend Allows a chaplain and their family to attend $100 a Spiritual Retreat a day-long retreat for spiritual renewal.
San Diego Rescue Mission We lovingly address the needs of men, women and children experiencing homelessness through a holistic, Christ-centered approach to recovery and rehabilitation. Our Mission Academy is a year-long residential program focusing on spiritual/physical/emotional wellness, job training and education, employment and housing. We also offer an emergency shelter for women and children and a licensed Christian preschool. By God’s grace, we are expanding our services to develop a coordinated system for getting more people off the streets permanently. Two new shelters in Oceanside and National City and outreach programs like Walk With Me and a Mobile Shower Ministry fuel this system that provides a continuum of Christ-like hospitality from the streets to stability. Because we lead with Jesus, we accept zero government funding, which is why your financial support is so appreciated. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Support a child $25 Your gift provides a day of preschool for a homeless child. in preschool Your gift blesses a recovering man or woman $50 Bible with their own Bible.
SAT-7 SAT-7 is a Christian satellite TV network that has been broadcasting God’s love to over 500 million people in the Middle East and North Africa since 1996. We produce and air programs in the 3 major spoken languages of these regions: Arabic, Farsi, and Turkish. SAT-7 was a pioneer in distance education for refugees and displaced peoples long before distance learning became a global reality during the Covid-19 pandemic. We serve over 40 million viewers and have seen increasing engagement on social media. We also launched an educational initiative that helps millions of refugees and displaced coast kids to continue their studies online. SAT-7 delivers THEOLOGY through TECHNOLOGY PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Your gift supports the Audience Relations team in meeting the growing demand due to significant increases in social media engagements across all SAT-7 channels. Audience $25 2020 ENGAGEMENT RECORDS: Relations Team 90% more for SAT-7 KIDS 120% SAT-7 TURK 328% SAT-7 ACADEMY (education online for refugees and displaced kids) Your gift will sponsor one hour of broadcasting the message of $30 Hour of Hope HOPE to Afghan kids and Afghan believers–double your gift to give HOPE to hundreds of thousands of SAT-7 KIDS viewers.
ScholarLeaders ScholarLeaders International exists to encourage and enable Christian theological leaders from the Majority World for the Global Church. (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East). We support leaders as they earn PhDs in theology and related fields; since our founding, over 150 leaders have completed degrees and returned home to train pastors, missionaries, evangelists, and entrepreneurs. We also guide Majority World seminaries to make wise long-term plans so that they can better equip students for ministry. We have particular interests in promoting women in theological leadership and in the Church in Muslim- majority contexts. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Your gift helps support a yearly peer forum Support Women’s $25 and retreat for women leaders in theological Leadership Programs education from the Majority World. Support a Seminary Your gift helps support a Majority World Leader working $50 Student on a PhD at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Solutions for Change (Angel Tree) SOLVING FAMILY HOMELESSNESS One Family, One Community at a Time Solutions Academy is a comprehensive 700-day vocational program that prepares families for lifelong success through career pathways, work experience, leadership training, family management skills, teamwork, financial literacy, personal development, accountability and connection. The Angel Tree program allows us to provide Christmas gifts to the children of the families we serve at SFC. Select a gift request from the list online at The Village Church Website, purchase the gift, wrap it, and bring it back. Volunteers of the Village Church will hand out your gift at the homeless shelter’s annual Christmas party. If you would like to make a donation, volunteers will purchase the gift for you. PLEASE WRAP AND RETURN GIFTS TO THE VILLAGE CHURCH BY FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3 PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION 1. Sign Up Online at: villagechurch.org/angel-tree 2. Click Sign Up Button: Select a gift request(s) from the list 3. Gifts should cost around $30: After you go and purchase 1 Christmas the gift(s), please wrap the gift and include a gift tag with $30 Angel Gift the child’s name and code#, and then drop off the gift at Church. There will be an Angel Tree table on the patio Sunday mornings, or you can leave gifts anytime in the church office during regular office hours (M-F 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM). Please drop off your gift by Friday, December 3.
STUDIO Internship Brad & Lisa are teachers/mentors with STUDIO, a training program for new cross-cultural workers. Candidates preparing for ministry among the poor overseas spend three months studying and practicing what they are learning in hands-on ministry among refugees and immigrants in San Diego. Studio interns and their families live together in an immigrant neighborhood and study under experienced overseas workers. They learn to build relationships with their refugee neighbors, serve them in practical ways such as English tutoring, and share with them the love of Jesus. Brad & Lisa are part of the leadership team and are thrilled to see graduates from the first seven training sessions in fruitful and resilient ministry around the world. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION $25 Intern Meals Provides a week of meals for one intern. Third-Culture Supports a week’s programming $100 Kid Support for children of interns (third-culture kids).
Sudanese American Presbyterian Church SOUTH SUDANESE AMERICAN FELLOWSHIP A worshiping and spiritual education community for refugees and their children who are growing up suspended between two cultures. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Disciple Isolated and Your gift helps us provide support to Sudanese $40 Persecuted Believers believers facing isolation and persecution. Church Ministry Your gift supports worship and spiritual education $50 Programs programs for Sudanese refugees and their children.
UrbanLife Ministries UrbanLife’s mission is to transform people in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego, CA, through future- focused, life changing self-development initiatives. At UrbanLife, we believe transformed people transform their neighborhoods, and that starts with youth. We focus on developing youth in City Heights through spiritual, academic, physical, and workforce development programming. Students ages 14-24: • Experience God and develop healthy relationships with adult small group leaders at our weekly youth group. • Learn the benefits and importance of a healthy lifestyle through our farms program and our running program, City Heights Runners. • Receive tutoring, homework, and college prep help from UrbanLife staff and volunteers. • Learn critical job skills such as discipline, communication, and time and money management, all while earning a paycheck or stipend at our UrbanLife Cafe and UrbanLife Farms. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Your gift sponsors a meal for $125 Sponsor a Meal UrbanLife Central, our youth group. Your gift sponsors one student’s internship at $200 Sponsor a Cafe Intern UrbanLife Café Leadership Academy
Urban Youth Collaborative What is UYC? Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC) is an outreach youth ministry founded by Rev. Dr. Nate Landis in 2009. UYC brings the good news of Jesus into one hundred public middle and high schools in San Diego, Tijuana, and Atlanta. Our mission is to win students to Christ, especially those from disadvantaged communities, connect them to a local church where they can grow as disciples, and mobilize them as servant leaders who transform their schools, families, and communities. By showing Jesus’ love in practical ways, UYC has grown to reach thousands of students every week through life-changing relationships. An expanding coalition of local churches, campus allies, student leaders, devoted staff, and gospel patrons makes this ministry possible. PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Your gift provides funds for grocery gift cards $50 Grocery Gift Cards to support hungry kids/families impacted by Covid-19’s economic disruptions. Your gift provides staff support for UYC’s front-line Front-line Staff $100 employees who share Jesus with, and care for, vulnerable Support students and families during the pandemic.
World Vision Around the world, millions of children are unable to attend school, simply because their families are too poor to provide the basic school supplies they need. These children, particularly girls, are at greater risk for exploitation and a life defined by poverty. In the same way, lack of access to the most basic hygiene items, and the risk of insect-borne illnesses like malaria can rob children of their health, happiness, and hope for the future. Promise Packs are filled with needed items like school supplies, hygiene items and an insect-repelling blanket. Learn how your group can provide tangible hope to vulnerable children around the world when you assemble World Vision Promise Packs! PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Your gift purchases a backpack and basic necessities Children’s Promise such as notebooks, pens, crayons, eraser, ruler, $25 Pack for 1 Child pencils/sharpener, toothbrush/toothpaste, soap, washcloth, insect-repelling blanket, etc. for 1 child. Your gift purchases a backpack and basic necessities Children’s Promise such as notebooks, pens, crayons, eraser, ruler, $50 Pack for 2 Children pencils/sharpener, toothbrush/toothpaste, soap, washcloth, insect-repelling blanket, etc. for 2 children.
Rancho Del Sol Young Life & Young Life North Coast Rancho Del Sol teams have jumped in with kids hosting events, clubs, and campaigners for almost a month. We have met over 200 new students through contact work and have had almost 100 kids attend weekly meetings for Young Life and Wyldlife! This is an exciting and necessary time for our leaders to meet students as they come out of isolation. Thank you for cheering us on as we go into a world of kids and being lights for Jesus! PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Small Group Your gift helps provide Bibles, journals, and supplementary $50 Supplies resources for one of the 6 small groups we are running. Your gift provides one week of supplies for all School Ministry $100 the schools where we have ministry, such as Supplies care packages, game prizes, and food.
Young Life North County With the Village Church’s support, Young Life North County has reached out to students from Del Mar, Solana Beach, Encinitas, Carlsbad, Oceanside, and beyond for more than 20 years. Led by Scott Rubin and Randy Giusta it has grown to reach over 500 kids with little or no faith or church background every year. Built on the foundation of relationships, prayer, and adventure, Young Life leaders, show up in kids’ lives, introduce them to Jesus Christ, and help them grow in their faith! Community contact work, weekly outreach meetings, discipleship groups, winter, and summer camps are ways that Young Life leaders extend the invitation for kids to jump into Young Life. Kids quickly discover that Young Life is all about Jesus! To hear more about what God is doing through Young Life, contact Scott Rubin at 760.845.9735 or svrubin@gmail.com. You can also find us online at cov.younglife.org PRICE GIFT DESCRIPTION Your gift provides Bibles and discipleship materials $25 Ministry Materials for Young Life ministries. Your gift provides funds to send a teen to $100 Camp Tuition Young Life camp when it is safe to do so again.
A VILLAGE FAMILY UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS FOR OUR ADVENT SEASON AT THE VILLAGE CHURCH
EVERY SUNDAY WORSHIP AT THE VILLAGE CHURCH 9:00 AM – On the Patio • 10:30 AM – Inside the Sanctuary 10:30 AM – LIVE Stream available: villagechurch.org/worship NOVEMBER 14 ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS MARKET 8:30 AM - 12:00 Noon • Mission Market on the Patio More online at: villagechurch.org/alternative-christmas-market NOVEMBER 19-20 ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914 7:00 PM • Award-winning musical presented by Bodhi Tree Concerts Purchase tickets online: villagechurch.org/all-is-calm NOVEMBER 28 A VILLAGE FAMILY CHRISTMAS 4:00 PM • Advent Kick-Off on the Patio • Family Gathering RSVP Required online: villagechurch.org/a-village-family-christmas DECEMBER 3 BLUE CHRISTMAS SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE 11:00 AM • Worship in the Chapel For Those Grieving Loss of Loved Ones Contact Pastor Jan Farley janf@villagechurch.org DECEMBER 4 BREAKFAST IN BETHLEHEM 9:00 AM • Family Breakfast on the Patio & Christmas Story RSVP Required online: villagechurch.org/breakfast-in-bethlehem DECEMBER 8 WOMEN’S CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON 11:00 AM • Catered Lunch on the Patio RSVP Required • More information hollic@villagechurch.org DECEMBER 12 A BAROQUE NOEL 7:00 PM • Inside the Sanctuary • Featuring Choir, Orchestra & Soloists Performing Baroque Christmas Masterpieces RSVP Required online: villagechurch.org/a-baroque-noel DECEMBER 19 COMING HOME AT CHRISTMAS 4:00 PM • On the Patio • Classic Carols & Stories Featuring the Chancel Choir & Pastor Jack DECEMBER 24 CHRISTMAS EVE WORSHIP 2:00 PM Family Worship on the Patio *4:00 PM Traditional Worship inside the Sanctuary • LIVE Stream *6:00 PM Traditional Worship on the Patio 11:00 PM Traditional Worship inside the Sanctuary with Communion *Childcare Available
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