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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

COME. BUILD. HOPE.

Amor Ministries

Price Gift Description

$20 Shingles A roll of roofing shingles to cover a

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

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

$200 Stucco a Home Two coats of stucco to complete a

family’s new home.

When Amor Ministries began in 1980, many of the

poorest families were sending their children away to

orphanages because they could not provide for them.

Orphanages were filling up with children whose

parents loved them, but lacked the resources to take

care of their general needs. After encountering this

reality, Amor’s Founders decided to offer an

alternative. For the last thirty-eight years, Amor

Ministries’ main purpose was and continues to be to

provide adequate housing to keep families together. In

addition to helping make life easier by providing a

home, we share the grace and love of Jesus by

providing security, safety, and stability to families who

would otherwise be without.

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$38

Transit Pass

A transit pass to provide an inner city child transportation to

school for a month.

$75 Send a Child to

Winter Camp

Sponsor a scholarship to a homeless San Diego child so they

may attend a camp this winter.

$100

Emergency Healthy

& Welfare Needs

Provide sponsorship to help with emergency health and wel-

fare needs of a hungry, suffering, forgotten and/or homeless

child in San Diego.

Care House

Our Care House Mission is Simple~

To come together as a community and stand

in the gap for some of the neediest yet most

deserving kids of San Diego county through

our tutoring program, bible club meetings or

the outreach center. We strive to serve the

kids who are living well below the poverty

line as a community.


$10

Essential Supplies for

the Homeless

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.

$30

Help a Church Member

or

Family in Need

Your gift maintains a benevolence fund that allows us to

help those in the church who need emergency aid due to

unexpected medical expenses, job loss, due to disaster or

other similar needs.

Deacons ~ Village Church

REPRESENTING CHRIST TO THE CHURCH FAMILY

AND THE

SURROUNDING COMMUNITY

FACILITATED BY THE WORK OF

COMMITTEES

&

THEIR DEACON MEMBERS.

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$25 Warm Jacket for a Primary

School Student.

Keep a child cozy, warm, and dry in the cool,

rainy months.

$100 High School Science

Lab Supplies

Keeping the beautiful, state-of-the-art Science Center

running, chemicals, propane, and other supplies require

ongoing replenishment.

$500 Fund to Enhance

Teacher Salaries

Attract and retain high-quality, innovative teachers who

are dedicated to Christian education.

$1000 Funding to Support Students

who are Currently Unsponsored

or Partially Sponsored

New children arrive at the home regularly; this fund

helps defray the cost of their care until a sponsor

can be found.

Elma Barnett Center Kenya

Our Mission Statement The mission of Walindwa Charitable Corporation is to

model God’s love and compassion by working to improve

the quality of life of the children of the Rift Valley

Province of Kenya, particularly those at Elma Barnett

Children’s Centre Kamonong. Walindwa raises funds,

donates goods, and volunteers our services in partnership

with Kenyan organizations to effect improvements in the

essentials of daily life, in education, and in healthy living

practices, thereby bringing hope to these children and

their families. Our actions empower children and youth to

become adults with integrity and Christian values; adults

who are self-sufficient, responsible members and leaders

of Kenyan society.

In the Swahili language, “Walindwa” means “the ones

who are guarded or protected.”


Send a Child to

Vacation Bible School

for 10 Days

Providing 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.

$25

10 - Adult Bible-Based

Literacy Classes

Your contribution funds an adult to attend for 10 months and

greatly increase their earning potential.

$125

A Sewing Machine

Your gift provides a sewing machine so a women in need

can begin a tailoring business.

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.

$750

Half a Well of Clean

Water

for a Village

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.

Glad Tidings India

Bringing the Glad

Tidings of God to

India by Training &

Equipping the

Indigenous Church

$1

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$20

Gift Certificate for

Gasoline

Gas station gift certificates through its

Neighborhood Resource Center to help needy families buy

gas to get to work and school.

$72

Bus Pass

Transportation so they can get

to work, a doctor’s appointment, school, and

purchase groceries.

$3,815 Nine Month Drug/Alcohol

Recovery

Program Scholarship

Your contribution will provide a scholarship for a

nine month drug/alcohol recovery program.

Grace Vista Presbyterian Church

About Grace

God is a God of Love. In grace, God

chooses to show love and mercy. When

we were dead in trespass and sin, God

made us alive with Christ, saving us by

grace through faith, as a sheer gift of

sovereign love.

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.

Harry Hakan Scholarship

$50

Provide support to Village

Church seminary students. Your

gift provides support for tuition

and books

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Homeless Veterans Initiative

Gift Description

$631 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.

Gift Specific Move-In Packages:

Bedroom

Cleaning Tools

Cleaning Supplies

Kitchen Dining Supplies

Kitchen Cooking Supplies

Personal Care Supplies

Bathroom

Bed Purchase

Purchase individual kits, containing supplies to support setting up

permanent housing for a homeless veteran.

In partnership with five North

County Presbyterian churches and

Interfaith Community Services,

helps supply household items to

homeless veterans as they setup

permanent housing.

$81

$70

$40

$75

$100

$45

$70

$150


$25

Welcome Gift Bag for

Brazilian Street Children

Arriving for the First Time.

Our kids arrive in the back of a squad car— terrified of

what their new lives will be like. A welcome gift bag with a

toothbrush, toothpaste, teddy bear, picture frame, and other

small items may be the first gifts these

children have ever had.

$25

Help Celebrate a Brazilian

Child’s Birthday at Hope.

Many of our children do not have a birth certificate. After

having their bones– x-rayed by a medical doctor, we deter-

mine their age and let them choose their birth date.

$50

Transform the Life of a

Brazilian Street Child

for a Day Program

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.

$100

Vocational Training for

Brazilian Mortally at Risk

Children

Vocational training program offers certification and guaran-

teed job placement in highly demanded fields like auto body

repair, food preparation and office management. Your gift

will purchase instructional materials for their courses.

Hope Unlimited Hope Unlimited provide

comprehensive residential care

for adolescents who have

nowhere else to turn. We are,

literally, their last resort. Our

kids come from the worlds of sex

trafficking, drug running,

incarceration, and life on the

streets. At our campuses in

Campinas and Vitória, Brazil

they find hope.

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If you spend yourselves on 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

Ladle Fellowship


$25

A Hot Meal and Blanket

A hot meal and a blanket~ priceless!

$40

Street Corner Care

Medical Clinic

Underwriting of the medical supplies for a Sunday.


$25

Food and Supplies for

Camp Pendleton BBQ

Your gift will purchase food and supplies to support the

Base BBQ, organized for Marines at Camp Pendleton

through the Village Church program.

$30

Baby Items

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

Military Outreach

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$25

Unexpected Needs of our

Mission Partners

Supports various mission programs world-wide. Your

contribution allows us to help mission partners with

special programs and to support unexpected needs.

$50

Scholarships for

Mission Trips

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.

Mission Commission Village Church

Mission.— Founded in 2007 in the

Coachella Valley, California,

American Outreach Foundation is a

non-profit organization that strives

to serve the unmet needs of those

who suffer from any kind of

impairment, regardless of their age,

race, gender or financial situation.

Outreach Foundation


$15

School Uniform for a

Kenyan Girl

Operates boarding school rescue centers for girls.

(In partnership with the Presbyterian

Church of East Africa)

$25 Groceries for a

Presbyterian Family

in Syria

Supports churches and ministry in the Middle East. Your

gift will purchase a week of groceries for a needy/refugee

family in Syria

$50

Heating Fuel

for a Month

Supports the Christian Church in the Middle East.

$100

Build Classrooms

in Kenya

In partnership with the Presbyterian Church of East Africa

(PCEA), we are constructing classrooms in their

churches. Your donation helps change the lives of many

children through the gift of education.

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Plant with Purpose


$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.

$50

Curriculum & Training

for

Church Leaders

Equipping local church leaders in rural communities to live

out the Gospel alongside their neighbors.

$50

Fund a Family Garden

Help equip farming families increase productivity and

put nutritious meals on the table.

$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.

A Christian development organization, that

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.

PCCMP Presbyterian Council for Chaplin's & Military Personnel


$10

Postage for Spiritual

Materials to Deployed

Chaplains

Pays postage to send devotional materials

to deployed chaplains.

$100

Scholarship to Attend a

Spiritual Retreat

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

retreat for spiritual renewal.

From the founding of our nation, Presbyterian Chaplains, along with

clergy from many faith groups, have served the Armed Forces of our

country with distinction. Early on, however, the need to establish

standards for clergy serving in the military became evident; therefore,

the religious community and the military established an “Ecclesiastical

Endorsement” (certification) for all chaplains serving the men and

women in the Armed Forces. The Department of Defense now defines

the requirements for all religious leaders who wish to serve as chaplains.

The PCCMP helps our denominations ensure that our ministers meet and

maintain DoD standards.

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Presbyterian Urban Ministry


$40 Birth Certificate Administrative costs for families to obtain a

Birth Certificate.

$50

A Bag of Food to Feed

a Family

Provide 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

transformation in their lives.

$80 Steel Toe

Work Boots

Protective foot wear for those in industrial jobs,

construction, kitchens, protection from hazards

and heavy objects.

$72 Provide a Two

Week Bus Pass

Your gift will allow individuals and families to have

transportation to and from work, doctors appointments,

school and shopping.

A Christ-centered ministry, dedicated to helping those

in need with a focus on a hand up

rather than just hand outs.

W e a r e n o t a h o m e l e s s s h e l t e r ;

W e a r e n o t a s o u p k i t c h e n ;

W e a r e n o t a n o t h e r t h r i f t s t o r e .

W e a r e a m i n i s t r y t h a t w o r k s w i t h o u r c l i e n t s

i n a d i g n i f i e d w a y t o s h o w C h r i s t ' s l o v e i n a c t i o n

t h r o u g h o u r p r a y e r s , l o v e , a n d d e v o t i o n t o t h e

h o m e l e s s a n d u r b a n p o o r .

Reality Changers


$350

Scholarship to

Forest Home Camp

Your gift will sponsor a scholarship to a disadvantaged

youth to attend camp.

$3500

Support a First Generation

College Student with a

UCSD Academic

Connections Scholarship

Provide a disadvantaged youth with academic

support, financial assistance and leadership

training. A share can also be given.

Reality Changers transforms lives by

providing youth from disadvantaged

backgrounds with the academic support,

financial assistance, and leadership

training to become college graduates.

COLLEGE CHANGES EVERYTHING

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San Diego Rescue Mission


$10

Find a Job for an

Unemployed Veteran

More than 20% of the people who come to the mission are

veterans. Your gift provides assistance to veterans to help

them find a job in the communities they so bravely served.

$20

Hot Meals for 12 of

San Diego’s Homeless

Hunger relief programs provide critical, nutritious meals

that lead to greater health and renewed energy to the

San Diego homeless.

$50

A Day of Nursery School

for 2 Homeless Children

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.

Mission

To lovingly address the needs

of men, women and children

experiencing homelessness by

sharing the Good News of

Salvation and providing a

holistic approach to

rehabilitation and recovery.

We support the Christians of the Middle East and

North Africa in their Christian witness and lives. We

beam the Good News of the Kingdom of God straight

into people’s homes, into the center of family life. We

deliver Christian satellite television for the Middle

East and North Africa.

WE MAKE GOD’S LOVE VISIBLE.

SAT—7


$25 Develop Women’s Programs Supoport the development of Christian

programs for Arab women in the Middle East.

$50 Develop Programs for

Arab Children

Supporting the development of Christian children’s

programs for Children in the Middle East.

$50 Five Minutes of Air Time Your gift supports five minute of

Broadcast air time.

$500 New Van Your gift supports transporting all the television

equipment and personnel in Egypt.

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Scholarleaders

$35

Christmas Gifts for the children of

an international student in the US

living on restricted budgets.

SCHOLARLEADERS INTERNATIONAL

Exists to encourage and enable Christian theological

leaders from the Majority World for the Global Church.

…encourage and enable

We fund advanced education, help leaders return home

after study, provide seed money for their ministry

initiatives, create venues and opportunities for sharing

ideas, connect leaders to one another for counsel and

support, and offer our skills in strategic planning. We do

not direct, but only support leaders – holistically,

prayerfully, and financially.

…Christian

We follow Jesus and hope to contribute to his Church as

it extends God’s love to all creation.

…theological leaders

Regardless of title or degree, these include:

• Teachers who educate and mentor pastors,

missionaries, and other Christian workers;

• Theologians who prophetically call fellow believers

to deeper faith and stronger witness, and challenge

both Church and society;

• Entrepreneurs who initiate and develop theologically

sound ministries; and

Executives who lead schools of theology and other

ministries.

…from the Majority World

Our focus is on Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle

East, and Eastern Europe – under-resourced regions

where the Church is often growing rapidly amidst

extreme poverty, oppression, health crises, and even civil

war and other armed conflict.

…for the Global Church

Brothers and sisters from the Majority World inspire all

believers as they remain faithful in challenging

circumstances, finding innovative ways to serve as

Christian leaders.

$100

Invest in Majority World Leaders

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 invests in majority

World Leaders working on PhD’s

in Theological education in

the United States.

Solutions for Change

Christmas Angel

Christmas Angel

$25

Help a child celebrate Christmas by purchasing a gift

from the Christmas Angel Tree.

Volunteers of the Village Church hand out your gift at

the homeless shelter’s annual Christmas party.

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Student Ministry Program

Village Church


$100

Village Church Student

Ministries Scholarship

Support a youth or a Youth Leader by providing funds

to attend summer camp or a short-term mission trip.

$200

Midweek Meals

Feed our midweek youth group for a month.

Meals are an important way to build

community through fellowship.

$500

Tech Upgrades

Give the gift of learning through technology by

providing the funds necessary for audio-visual

upgrades in our Student Youth Lounge.

Sudanese American Presbyterian Church

SOUTH SUDANESE

AMERICAN FELLOWSHIP

A worshipping and spiritual education

Community for refugees and their children

who are growing up

suspended between two cultures.

$50

Church Ministry

Programs at the

Sudanese Church

in San Diego

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.

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Urban Youth Collaborative


$35 Backpack with School

Supplies

Provide a backpack with school supplies to a needy urban youth.

$50 Pizza for Fellowship

Meeting with 50

Local Youth

Meets with at risk Middle & High School youth in San Diego

county through fellowship and mentoring.

$100 40 New Testaments for

Urban Youth

Works with at risk youth in Middle & High School in San Diego

county and connects them to local churches and resources.

$500 Scholarship to UCLA

Summer Camp

Sponsor a scholarship for an inner city child to attend a UCLA

Summer camp. You may also purchase a partial scholarship.

EMPOWERING

STUDENT

LEADERS

VISION: We believe in the limitless potential and irreplaceable value of every young person and

want to see them achieve their full God-given potential. We dream of a day when young leaders

across America will gather in student-led campus clubs to live out their dreams of a better future

for their friends, families, and communities.


$25

Children’s Promise Pack

A Kit for young Syrian refugees

Backpacks include: Notebooks, Pens, Crayons,

Eraser, Ruler, Pencils/Sharpener, Toothbrush/

Toothpaste, Soap, Washcloth, Insect-Repelling

Blanket, and a Note of Encouragement from you!

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 neighbors.

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Young Life

Price Gift

$25

Bibles

$50 Pizza for

Campus Club

$75 Transportation for

Students to YL Club

$150 Send Students to

Weekend Camp

$200 Training for

New Leaders

$650 Send Students to

Summer Camp

Young Life is a world-class organization for young

people. Young Life began when a young pastor, Jim

Rayburn, decided it was time for people of faith to step

outside the church building and walk across the street to

the local school. He was convinced this was the best

way to reach young people who otherwise might never

hear an accurate account of the Gospel. Seven decades

later, were crossing streets all over the globe into

teenagers worlds to build relationships with them.

Our staff and volunteers enter the world of adolescents,

focusing on what matters to them: fun, adventure,

friendship and a sense of significance. In doing so, we

earn the privilege of talking to them about something

that we believe matters most of all: the truth about God

and His love for them.

Yugo


$35 A Backpack full of

School supplies for

one child

A gift of excitement and encouragement for a year of learning!

$70 Black School Shoes

or

White School Shoes

What is better than a new pair of shoes for a new school year!

$200 New Child

Starter Trunk

Provides trunk or duffel bag with bedding, throw blanket,

beach towel, beach tote, and water bottle.

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.

PO Box 704, 6225 Paseo Delicias

Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067

Phone: 858.756.2441 | Fax: 858.756.3745

www.villagechurch.org

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