VIDEO: How my church made Christmas count (including our December respite!)

This year, our church had a series of opportunities for families to serve our larger community in various ways. We called it "Making This Christmas Count." I'm not sure if it'll become an annual thing, but I sure hope it will.

This video highlights three of those outreaches:

• Respite Night: three hours of free childcare at our church for families whose children have special needs
• Gifts of Grace: kind of like an Angel Tree thing in which members bought specific gifts, and then families in need were able to come "shop" from us one night, and 
• our December downtown Saturday morning outreach: we provide a meal once a month in an area in Raleigh where people who are homeless tend to gather 

Making This Christmas Count from Providence on Vimeo.