Altar Focus: Carrie’s Kids Carrie’s Kids will be the Altar Focus for the month of December. A Christmas tree is set up in the narthex with paper “jeans” ornaments listing the sizes of K-6th grade boys. Jeans are the primary focus—track pants are also very popular—and other items such as socks and underwear are welcome, too. Carrie’s Kids is a local organization started by a former school social worker, helping 200-300 children and adolescents weekly, who are homeless or at risk, with a variety of programs, events, and groups.
Our second Altar Focus for December is Good Gifts, which is a program of our denomination, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. We have catalogs available on the table by the fountain in the narthex and ornaments on the small tree and a table in the narthex as well. You can choose something, make the appropriate donation to LCC and memo it “Good Gifts” (there are cute cards on the table for you to send the recipient as well), or you can do everything online at www.elca.org/goodgifts. These gifts are great teaching tools for kids (who are excited to know how the honeybees, or goat or chicks they have given will help a family across the world live better), and perfect for the person who already has everything! There is something to suite everyone’s interests, from animals to tuition, to counseling, to toilets, to school supplies, to vaccinations, to plants and trees, and much, much more. Here’s a way to add meaning to your Christmas, and to someone else’s as well.