World Vision Asks to Save Lives with One Giant Christmas Card for Church

|PIC1|Every Christmas it’s the same dilemma – how and when will you find the time and energy to sign and write a message on dozens, if not hundreds of Christmas cards for friends, colleagues and family? It can be a real headache.

For the fourth year running Christian relief and development agency, World Vision offers Christmas shoppers a giant solution. The charity has designed a huge Alternative Christmas Card, where everyone from a church, office or even school can write a personal seasonal greeting to each other and then place it in a central place or notice board, for all to see and share.

This initiative not only means less stress and time spent writing, but more importantly all the money that is saved from not buying Christmas cards this year will be collected and sent to World Vision - enabling the charity to work with many of the world’s poorest children, their families and communities.

‘The giant Christmas Card is a brilliant idea because it allows people in churches to celebrate Christmas together by sending all the money they save on individual Christmas cards to a good cause. We get a very happy Christmas and they get a Happy New Year,’ said Church Relations Manager, Alistair Metcalfe.

The Alternative Christmas Card is delivered with a donation sheet, a simple way to track everyone’s donations, along with inspirational examples of how the donation will help to improve lives. There’s a colourful label for the collection jar and a return envelope. Each card has space for approximately 50 greetings, but World Vision can send as many cards as churches need.

To order your free Alternative Christmas Card pack, contact World Vision on 01908 84 10 10 or visit www.worldvision.org.uk/church




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