Four hundred invited parents will shop for their own children at the Christmas Store and will be able to purchase and place the gifts under their Christmas tree themselves.
Why do we do Christmas in Walnut? What really happens through this half day event?
1. Community members voice a felt need for Christmas assistance every single year in the Cedar Valley. People with financial resources feel especially benevolent over the holidays and often want to bless others. Why not create an event that allows the two to come together in a way that will help us fellowship, participate together, serve side by side in the spirit of Christ and Christmas?
2. Christmas in Walnut puts Christmas giving back in the hands of the parent. It allows parents to choose and purchase gifts for their own children and to put them under the tree themselves rather than being given gifts from a stranger. This affirms dignity. Last year, several shoppers were also volunteers at the event. We are building community and capacity through this opportunity.
3. Christmas in Walnut helps bonds of partnership grow. Harvest Vineyard, Orchard Hill Church, the Boys n' Girls Club, Cunningham Elementary, House of Hope, and this year, Irving Elementary and First Presbyterian join us. We are working to strengthen the relational fabric in and around the Walnut Neighborhood. This event helps us to collaborate and do just that.
These are just a few reasons of many in the layers of how God works through Christmas in Walnut. I will spend more time in future posts unpacking more of the WHY!
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