Each year during the Advent and Christmas season, we turn our eyes to Bethlehem and celebrate the wondrous gift of Jesus Christ, our Savior. By giving to the Christmas Joy Offering, you honor this gift...
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Christmas Joy gifts have helped Menaul School change lives for generations
Gary Lucero Jr., a sophomore at the Presbyterian-related Menaul School, has 20/20 vision that sees the promise of the future and the richness of the past. He looks forward to the year 2020 when he will...
The Christmas Joy Offering helps form future leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Their student days may have been a generation apart, but both Lemuel Garcia-Arroyo and his nephew Jasiel Hernandez found the Presbyterian Pan American School (Pan Am) to be an incubator for Christian...
Christmas Joy gifts help bring about happy endings after tragedies strike
In 2014, Elisabeth Scotland’s college graduation day turned from joy and celebration to trauma and heartache in an instant. After receiving her diploma from Boston University, Elisabeth, along with...
Christmas Joy gifts help ensure dignity for a faithful church servant’s final years
As an urban minister for more than 40 years, Bob Forsberg dedicated his willing hands, generous heart, and sharp mind to serving people society had cast aside. Last year however, at age 91, the...
Christmas Joy Offering – Menaul School
Mari Duran is a happy seventh grader who wants to be a judge when she grows up. Right now, however, she is enjoying life as an honor student, a cheerleader, a volleyball player, and a budding actress...
Christmas Joy Offering – Board of Pensions Assistance Program
Jim Irwin was looking forward to college graduation and medical school when he received news of his father’s death on a cold February day in 1962. Jim’s father, Rev. James Walter Irwin, had a fatal...
Christmas Joy Offering – Helps pastor overcome the challenges of limited hearing
Rosie, a lovable Australian labradoodle, provides more than companionship to Rev. Wendy McAninch: She also alerts her to important sounds that Wendy is unable to hear. Wendy has been gradually losing...
Christmas Joy Offering – Pan American alum found the challenge of God’s call
Monika Ruiz’s vocational aspirations paint a portrait of holistic Christian commitment. This college sophomore wants to serve as a nurse in international mission, but her dreams for the future don’t...
Christmas Joy Offering – Standing with One Another
No one should have to choose between food and medicine, but Sharon was approaching that. Battling advanced thyroid cancer since 2001, Sharon was facing the growing number of additional prescriptions and...