AC Ideas

Check out these stories and be inspired as you participate in Advent Conspiracy:
  • My husband recently got a raise and instead of blowing his first paycheck on something we don't need, we are donating the extra money to Living Water International.
  • My daughter is selling the bracelets she likes to make. She is excited to bring all of her proceeds to KidsCrossing to donate to Living Water.
  • I’m making a quilt from my late husband’s shirts for my grandson. 
  • My parents are helping me pay for personal training and nutritional coaching. They are giving me the gift of health, energy, strength, healing and LIFE. 
  • We decided to have my parents and extended family come live with us for an entire weekend. We tried to recreate their time spent in Italy with homemade meals, Italian games, and going through photo albums together. I think we started a new tradition! 
  • We get together with friends and adopt a family for Christmas. 
  • Instead of presents I give my grandsons my time. We call it their special day. 
  • My dad and I have always been close in our spiritual walks. So, this year I chose to write a devotional for him that includes past memories that we have together. 
  • Our family invites our friends and their kids over for dinner and a game night. I was worried the older kids wouldn’t enjoy it, but they’ve already asked if we are doing it again this year! 
  • My kids and I are going to make a Christmas Memories photo album together. 
  • Spending time with my father in the hospital praying, loving and serving him. Knowing he will come to Christ.  
  • We give Living Water cards for the kids. Then we go to https://water.cc and pick a well to support. 
  • By giving to help people get fresh water. 
  •  Our family gets together and we pick out a list of organizations to donate to. It’s fun doing this together. 
  • We’re buying our granddaughters lessons in gymnastics! They will love this more than any toy! 
  • I think about what I think I would like for myself then try to do it for someone else. 
  • With our kiddos, we’ll pick names instead of getting gifts for each person. Instead, we do special little things for the person we pick in the weeks leading up to Christmas. It’s really fun! 
  • Planning a family lunch with my mom, may aunt, and our cousins and working on our family tree.  
  • Skipping individual Christmas gifts with extended family and instead, going on a fun family outing looking at Christmas lights and making memories. 
  • Family dinners with my extended family in the weeks leading up to Christmas and sharing family memories. 
  • Instead of exchanging gifts, our small group participates in an Outreach Serve Day together a couple of weeks after Christmas. It’s our GIVE MORE! 
  • We go caroling at a local children’s hospital. Through us, Jesus brings a moment of peace to families fighting incredible battles with devastating illnesses.
  •  My family spends less by sending out digital Christmas cards to our friends and family.
  •  My grandma put together a family cookbook. It’s one of my most prized possessions and I can’t wait to share it with my daughter one day.
  • My small group has a dinner party and packs up shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child.
  • Our family has a $25 spending limit for each person. The biggest surprise is how much more meaning and intentionality goes into each gift now.
  • My siblings and I made a photo album for our parents. They loved the surprise and it was more meaningful than anything we could have bought in a store.
  •  We plan out gifts that the whole family can do together. Things like gift cards to go to dinner, movie tickets, board games, camping gear.