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2017 Alternative Christmas Market

Giving Catalog

HARRY HAKEN SCHOLARSHIP FUND Military Outreach

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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.

Your gift makes a difference

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Provide Assistance

Price Gift Description

$3,815

Nine Month Drug/

Alcohol Recovery

Program Scholarship

Grace Vista Presbyterian Church Neighborhood

Program

Your contribution will provide a scholarship for a nine month

drug/alcohol recovery program.

$72 Bus Pass


Programs or Presbyterian Urban Ministries

Provide a person transportation so they can get to work,

a doctors appointment, school, and purchase groceries.

$38 Transit Pass Care House

Purchase a transit pass to provide an inner city child with

transportation to school for a month.

$30 Help a Church Member

or

Family in Need

Village Church Deacons Maintain a benevolence fund that

allows them to help those in the church who need emergency

aid due to unexpected medical expenses, job loss, loss due to

disaster or other similar needs.

$25 Support Case Workers The Ladle Fellowship

Your gift helps First Presbyterian Church San Diego provide

counseling services for the homeless.

$20 Gift Certificate for

Gasoline


Programs Provides gas station gift certificates through its

Neighborhood Resource Center to help needy families buy gas

to get to work and school.

Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do do for me.

[Matthew 25:45]

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Provide Assistance


$20 Hygiene Kits for the

Homeless

Presbyterian Urban Ministries

Your gift purchases hygiene kits for the homeless.

$10 Essential Supplies for

the Homeless

Village Church Deacons

Your gift purchases hygiene and non-perishable food items

included in gift bags which are assembled by the Village

Church Deacons. These bags are available to the congregation

to hand out to homeless they encounter.

According to the 2016 WeALLCount San Diego County point-in-time homeless count, there were 9,116 persons who were homeless in San Diego County on January 25, 2017. This represents an increase of 5% regionally from 2016. The unsheltered count increased 14% from 2016.

Summary Statistics:

• 69% of unsheltered homeless are male and 60% are “unsheltered” white. • 8% of San Diego County homeless are veterans. • 22% of the unsheltered are considered chronically homeless (as defined by HUD). • 3% report having substance abuse issues. • 4% report having severe mental illness.

• There was a 38% increase in homelessness in North County Coastal San Diego and a 26.1% increase in North County Inland San Diego. The Village Church supports several different Christ-based organizations who are trying to

help meet the needs of the poor and homeless in the region. ~ The needs are many ~

Your contributions of time and money can make a real difference to individuals in our community.

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Feed the Hungry


$50 A Bag of Food to Feed

a Family

Presbyterian Urban Ministries

Your donation provides a week’s worth of groceries to help

feed a family in San Diego. Your gift is a dignified way to

show Christ’s Love in action and help make real transfor-

mation in their lives.

$30 Feed Needy San Diego

Seniors, Veterans and

Military Families

Ladle Fellowship purchases food that is distributed to low-

income seniors, veterans in need and military families through

San Diego’s First Presbyterian Church’s ministry.

$25 Groceries for a

Presbyterian Family in

Syria

Outreach Foundation supports churches and ministry in

the Middle East. Your gift will purchase a week of groceries

for a needy/refugee family in Syria.

$20 Hot Meals for 12 of

San Diego’s Homeless

San Diego Rescue Mission Hunger relief programs

provide critical, nutritious meals that lead to greater health and

renewed energy to the San Diego homeless.

If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,

then your light will rise in the darkness,

and your night will become like the noonday. [Isaiah 58:10 ]

Every other month, the Village Youth and volunteer families assist

First Presbyterian Church in San Diego with their

Ladle Fellowship program.

The volunteers help feed the urban marginalized and homeless.

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Help the Children


$500 Support a Child to

attend a Day School

For One Year.

Elma Barnett Center Located in Kenya cares for children

of non-functioning parents by providing housing, healthcare,

education, protection and training according to Biblical

teaching.

$500 Scholarship to Young

Life Camp

Young Life Sponsor a scholarship to a Young Life camp for

an area student. You may also purchase a partial scholarship.

$500 Scholarship to UCLA

Summer Camp

Urban Youth Collaborative Sponsor an scholarship for a

inner city child to attend a UCLA Summer camp. You may also

purchase a partial scholarship.

$350 Scholarship to Forest

Home Camp

Reality Changers Sponsor a scholarship so a disadvantaged

youth can attend Forest Home camp.

$100 Emergency Health

& Welfare Needs

Care House Provide sponsorship to help with emergency

health and welfare needs of a hungry, suffering, forgotten and/or

homeless child in San Diego.

$100 Village Church Student

Ministries Scholarship

Village Church Student Ministries Support a youth or a

Youth Leader by providing funds to attend summer camp or a

short-term mission trip.

About 24% of the San Diego homeless were a member of a family comprised

of both adults and children. About 19% of those homeless families

had no shelter at night. The need is great!

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Help the Children


$75 Send a Child to Winter

Camp

Care House Sponsor a scholarship to homeless San Diego

children so they may attend a camp this winter.

$50 A Day of Nursery School

for 2 Homeless Children

San Diego Rescue Mission Children’s Center. Provide a

day of pre-school for two homeless children at the Early

childhood education program. Allow a place for the children to

be safe and feel secure throughout the day.

$50 Transform the Life of a

Brazilian Street Child

For a Day Program

Hope Unlimited ministers to the desperate street children of

Brazil. Their day programs help transform lives, while

equipping the children to live successful, productive lives as

adults.

$35 Backpack with School

Supplies

Urban Youth Collaborative Provide a backpack with

school supplies to a needy urban youth.

$25 School Books for a Child

for the School Year

Elma Barnett Center Your donation will purchase school

books for one of the children for one year.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: “If I stop

to help this man, what will happen to me?” But...the good Samaritan

reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man,

what will happen to him?” [Martin Luther King, Jr.]

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Start children off on the way they should go,

and even when they are old

they will not turn from it. [Proverbs 22:6]

Help the Children


$25 Angel Tree Gift Solutions for Change Help a child at celebrate Christmas

by purchasing a gift from the Angel Tree. Volunteers of the

Village Church host a Christmas party for the children and

deliver the gifts.

$20 All Terrain Vehicle

for the School

Elma Barnett Center Help purchase an All Terrain

Vehicle (ATV) that can be used for transportation.

$15 School Uniform for a

Kenyan Girl

Outreach Foundation Operates boarding school rescue

centers for girls. (In partnership with the Presbyterian Church

of East Africa)

$10 Shoes, Socks and

Underwear for a Student

Elma Barnett Center Your gift supports ongoing support

for the 33 primary children and 14 high school children that

live at the school.

YUGO Ministries Operates Casa Hogar de la Gracia in Baja California to meet the spiritual,

physical, emotional and mental needs of the fatherless. Committed to raising godly young

men and women equipped to transform their society for Christ. CHG includes a girl’s home, a

boy’s home, a nursery and transitional home for university students.

$15 A Book or DVD for

Orphans in Mexico

Your donation purchases a DVD or book for their

media library.

$40 Shoes

Your donation purchases black or white school shoes.

$100 Twin Mattresses Your donation purchases mattresses for our university house

beds.

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Improve Economic

Opportunity Price Gift Description

$125 A Sewing Machine Glad Tidings India Provides opportunity to struggling

families in India by providing seed capital to church

members so they can begin small, home-based businesses

to support their families. Your gift provides a sewing

machine so a women in need can begin a tailoring business.

$100 Vocational Training for

Brazilian Mortally At Risk

Children

Hope Unlimited Vocational training program offers

certification and guaranteed job placement in highly

demanded fields like auto body repair, food preparation and

office management. Your gift will purchase instructional

materials for their courses.

$40 Back to Work Clothing Presbyterian Urban Ministries Will purchase back to

work clothing (work boots, scrubs, non-skid shoes).

Glad Tidings India

partners with

indigenous churches

and other Christian

organizations to

provide Bibles and

equip church planters

to bring the good

news of Jesus Christ to the people of India. The Village Church helped sponsor a church planter

near the Indian border with Myanmar. Funding was raised by our Luke 19 project, which engaged

many Village Church families.

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Improve Economic

Opportunity


Plant With Purpose A Christian development organization, helps underprivileged families use their

land to provide food and income. The families are equipped to change their circumstances, provide for

their children, and live with God-given hope and dignity. The Village Church has supported several

mission trips to Southern Mexico and has seen first hand how important these gifts are in transforming the

lives of the families who receive them.

$50 Fund a Family Garden Help equip farming families increase productivity and put

nutritious meals on the table.

$20 Pair of Breeder Bunnies This gift of two breeder bunnies (and training in how to raise

them) helps underprivileged families multiply their nutrition

and their income. Income from bunnies can cover school

fees, pay for medical care or purchase essential household

needs. A mother rabbit can produce 60 babies a year,

resulting in an ongoing source of nutrition and income.

$1

$100

A Tree

A Forest

Trees are a vital part of equipping farming families to restore

their land, feed their families and invest in a better tomorrow.

At the end of our trip we stood on a steep hillside overlooking Oaxaca’s

Rolling mountains and valleys. The branches of young pine trees lifted and

lowered in the wind. This reforestation site is a testament to the

long-term transformation taking root across communities.

As one farmer put it:

“It’s the presence of God that helps the trees grow”

[from the Plant with Purpose Blog]

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Support Our Military


$30 Baby Items Military Outreach Your gift will be used to buy baby

items for our annual New Mom’s Baby Shower at Camp

Pendleton for the Village Church program.

$25 Food and Supplies for

Camp Pendleton BBQ

Military Outreach Your gift will purchase food and

supplies to Support Base BBQ, organized for Marines at

Camp Pendleton for the Village Church program.

$10 Find a Job for an

Unemployed Veteran

Diego Rescue Mission More than 20% of the people

who come to the mission are veterans. Your gift provides

a hand up to veterans to help them find a job in the

communities they so bravely served.

Presbyterian Council for Chaplains and Military Personnel (PCCMP) A ministry that cares,

recruits, endorses and supports chaplains for the mission of pastoral care and nurturing to veterans, military and

Civil Air Patrol personnel, federal prisoners and their families.

$100 Scholarship to attend a

Spiritual Retreat

Allows a chaplain and their family to attend a day-long

retreat for spiritual renewal.

$10 Postage for Spiritual

Materials to Deployed

Chaplains

Pays postage to send devotional materials to deployed

chaplains.

The Village Church supports our military through

Camp Pendleton (MCRD), Presbyterian Council for

Chaplains and in helping our Homeless Veterans.

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Support Our Military


Homeless Veterans Initiative In partnership with five North County Presbyterian churches and Interfaith

Community Services, the helps supply household items to homeless veterans as they setup permanent

housing. Move-in packages contain bedding, kitchen supplies, cleaning tools, personal are items and more.

Packages vary in cost from $60-225.

$646 Underwrite a Complete

Move-In Kit for a Homeless

Veteran

Purchase all seven move-in kits, supplying items

needed to completely set up a new permanent home.

$100

$86

$72

$80

$42

$45

$150

Gift Specific Move-In

Package:

Kitchen Cooking Supplies

Cleaning Tools

Bathroom Supplies

Bedding Supplies

Cleaning Supplies

Personal Care Supplies

Purchase of a Bed

Purchase individual kits, containing supplies to support

setting up permanent housing by a homeless veteran.

According to the Regional Task Force on the Homeless, many U.S.

veterans experience conditions that place them at increased risk for

homelessness. Veterans have higher rates of Post-Traumatic Stress

Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), sexual assault and

substance abuse than the general population.

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Support Christian Outreach


$100 40 New Testaments for

Urban Youth

Urban Youth Collaborative works with at risk youth

in Middle & High School in San Diego county and

connects them to local churches and resources.

$50 Scholarships for

Mission Trips

Village Church Mission Commission Offset the

cost of mission trips for those who want to serve but don’t

have the ability to bear the entire cost of a trip.

$50 Supplies for Weekly Local

High School Outreach

Young Life Meets weekly at area high schools to

promote Christian fellowship and service.

$50 Pizza for Fellowship

Meeting with 50

Local Youth

Urban Youth Collaborative Meets with at risk Middle

& High School youth in San Diego county through

fellowship and mentoring.

$50 Church Ministry Programs

at the Sudanese Church in

San Diego

Sudanese American Presbyterian Church in San

Diego. Your gift will support worship and spiritual

education programs for Sudanese refugees and their

children who are growing up suspended between two

cultures.

$50 Curriculum & Training for

Church Leaders

Plant With Purpose Equipping local church leaders in

rural communities to live out the Gospel alongside their

neighbors.

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$50 Pizza for Fellowship of

Christian Athletes Meeting

Village Church Student Ministry Program

Organizes Pizza at School meetings with local high

school athletes for fellowship and sharing of Christ and

His word.

$30 Bibles for Local High

School Student

Young Life Meets weekly at area high schools to pro-

mote Christian fellowship and service. Your gift pro-

vides a Bible to a new High School Christian.

$25 Unexpected Needs of our

Mission Partners

Village Church Mission Fund Supports various

mission programs world-wide. Your contribution allows

us to help mission partners with special programs and to

support unexpected needs.

$25 Gasoline for Young

Life Van

Young Life Provides transportation to students partici-

pating in various programs and service activities.

$1 Send a Child to

Vacation Bible School

for 10 Days

Glad Tidings The vast majority of Indian children have

never heard of a God who loves them, have never heard

of a God who cares for them, have never heard of Jesus

Christ. Working with India Bible Literature, provides

children the opportunity to learn about Jesus Christ

through a Vacation Bible School program. They have a

goal to send 1,000,000 kids to Vacation Bible School

each year.

Every Christian is either a

Missionary or an imposter.

~ Charles Spurgeon ~

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SAT-7 Provides Christian satellite television programming, with a vision to see a growing church in the

Middle East and North Africa. Programming for families show God’s love and educate viewers on the

Christian faith.

$600 One Hour of Air Time Your gift supports an hour of broadcast air time.

$50 Develop Programs for Arab

Children

Your gift supports the development of Christian

children’s programs for Children in the Middle

East.

$25 Develop Women’s Programs Your gift supports the development of Christian

programs for Arab women in the Middle East.

$10 One Minute of Air Time Your gift supports one minute of broadcast

air time.


World Vision Our aim is to contribute measurably to helping children enjoy good health, be educated for

life, be cared for and protected, participate fully in decisions that affect their lives, and experience the love

of God and their neighbor's.

$25

Children’s Promise Pack

A Kit for young Syrian refugees, includes a:

Backpack, Notebooks, Pens, Crayons, Eraser,

Ruler, Pencils/Sharpener, Toothbrush/Toothpaste,

Soap, Washcloth, Insect-Repelling Blanket and a

Note of Encouragement from you!

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Provide Educational Opportunity


$3500 Support a First Generation

College Student with a

UCSD Academic Connections

Scholarship

Reality Changers Provides disadvantaged youth with

academic support, financial assistance and leadership

training to become first generation college students. A

share can also be given.

$100 Build Classrooms

in Kenya

Outreach Foundation In partnership with the

Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA), are

constructing classrooms in their churches. Your donation

helps change the lives of many children through the gift

of education.

$100 Scholarships to

Seminary

Scholar Leaders International Support Christian

leaders in pursuit of doctoral-level education in theology.

Graduates have founded schools, started ministries and

written books and curriculum to teach and train pastors,

missionaries and Christian leaders. Your gift supports

scholarships to seminary.

$50 Tuition & Books For a

Seminary Student

Harry Haken Scholarship Fund provides support

to Village Church seminary students. Your gift provides

support for tuition and books.

$25 10 - Adult Bible-Based

Literacy Classes

Glad Tidings India conducts Bible-based literacy

classes. Your contribution funds an adult to attend for 10

months and greatly increase their earning potential.

"Someone asked, “Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved?' It is

more a question with me whether we—who have the Gospel and fail to give it to

those who have not— can be saved." [Charles Spurgeon]

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Provide Living

Essentials


$750 Half a Well of Clean Water

for a Village

Glad Tidings India In many Indian villages, clean

water is a scarce commodity. Help install bore wells in

these villages, to provide fresh, clean water and help

transform the village.

$50 Heating Fuel for a Month Outreach Foundation Supports the Christian

Church in the Middle East.

Amor Ministries Builds homes in Mexico for the underprivileged . Your contribution provides building

supplies that mission teams use to construct houses and has a direct effect on a family that is living in poverty.

$200 Stucco a Home Purchase two coats of stucco to complete a family’s

new home.

$80 Add a Door Purchase a door for a family’s new home.

$30 Box of Nails Purchase a box of nails to hold the home together.

$20 Shingles Purchase a roll of roofing shingle to cover a family.

The Village Church makes regular day-long mission trips with Amor to build homes in Mexico.

Singles, couples, and families have a great day of fellowship and service while radically

changing the world for a Mexican family in need. These are life changing trips that make a

real difference in the world.

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Index of Participating Missions

Ministry Page (s)

Amor Ministry 18

Care House 4, 7, 8

Deacons

(Village Church)

4, 5

Elma Barnett Center

(Kenya)

7, 8, 9

Glad Tidings

India

10, 15, 17,

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Grace Vista

Presbyterian Church

Neighborhood Programs

4, 5

Harry Hakken

Scholarship Fund

17

Homeless Veteran’s

Initiative

13

Hope Unlimited 8, 10

Ladle Fellowship 4, 6

Military Outreach 12

Mission Support

(Village Church)

14, 15

Outreach Foundation 6, 9, 17, 18

Plant with Purpose 11, 14

Ministry Page (s)

Presbyterian Council

for Chaplains and

Military Personnel

(PCCMP)

12

Presbyterian Urban

Ministry

4, 5, 6, 10

Reality Changers 7, 17

San Diego Rescue

Mission

6, 8, 12

SAT-7 16

ScholarLeaders 17

Solutions for Change 9

Student Ministry

Program

(Village Church)

7, 15

Sudanese American

Presbyterian Church

14

World Vision 16

Urban Youth

Collaborative

7, 8, 14

Young Life 7, 14, 15

YUGO Ministries 9

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