Giving means you care about people and you don’t care if they did anything for you first. You should love them and that is what it is all about. We should give to people that need help and not do mean things. When you are feeding people that means you are doing what God wants you to do.
This Christmas my family worked at the food bank at our church. When I was filling the orders and giving food to people in the food bank, I felt really proud. When I was giving food to the children it made me feel like I was doing the right thing and they were very happy with what they got. I mostly feel happy because they would have food during Christmas.
This Christmas we ‘adopted’ a family. This means that we picked a family and sent their four children gifts and we sent the parents gifts too. We tried to be friends with them and love the family and did not want to leave them. It was a nice and I hope they had a good Christmas. They were so nice that after Christmas they sent us some Christmas cookies and we really enjoyed them. That is what the gift of giving means to me.
by: Jordan Rose
The gift of giving means to have a spirit of giving to other people. I had the gift of giving to the poor. I am helping my community and my neighborhood. I can give my spirit to the Lord and he guides me to help others as my mom says I should do everything with “Joy”; Jesus, Others, Yourself.
Last December I went to the church behind me and helped feed 14 families. It was fun for me to help other families. What we did was to put food orders together for a program called Food Movers. They faxed orders to the church and then we filled boxes for the families. We had families that had single adults to families with infants and up to seven kids. The adults came in, showed I.D. and then filled out a sheet letting us know that they came. Then we gave them their food.
I also had a chance to bless a family with Christmas presents and blessed them so deeply that the family almost cried. In my mind I was thinking “I’m glad we did this for them”. I love blessing other kids and families in need. I think it’s a calling for me. I am glad I gave gifts to the family … it touched me a lot.
by Jeffrey
