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Gifts for the Christ Child
During the Christmas season, our church has had a long-standing practice of supporting organizations that meet local humanitarian needs. This year the Church Council is encouraging your Gifts for the Christ Child to provide food, blankets and cleaning supplies for the Central Aroostook Human Society’s new animal shelter.
The Christmas Fund
The Christmas Fund has been caring for active and retired clergy and lay employees of the United Church of Christ for over 100 years, providing emergency grants, supplementation of small annuities and health premiums, and Christmas “Thank You” gift checks each December to our lower-income retirees.
Your gift may be given any time during the month of December. Thank you for considering a gift to The Christmas Fund!
“Gifts for the Christ Child”
Just what can I give him, Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
If I were a wise man, I would do my part;
Yet, what I can I give him – give my heart.
As our church has considered whose birth we honor, we have for many years gathered “Gifts for the Christ Child,” supporting the work of local organizations to meet basic human needs. UPDATE: With Dec 18 worship cancelled, please bring gifts to the Christmas Eve service. …