1st Day of Christmas: Telford bikes for kids
2nd Day of Christmas: Tyner remembers Amanda
3rd Day of Christmas: Mountain View's new baby
4th Day of Christmas: Bluefield shares hope
5th Day of Christmas: St. Paul's 5-year-old missionary
6th Day of Christmas: Shades of Grace reaches the least
7th Day of Christmas: Johnson City's 'Sensitive Santa'
8th Day of Christmas: Asbury hosts huge party
9th Day of Christmas: Rural Retreat adopts 34 kids
10th Day of Christmas: Bradbury visits prisoners
11th Day of Christmas: First Farragut invites friends
12th Day of Christmas: Jubilee Project experiences grace
In Telford, Tenn., 40 volunteers from 10 churches joined to assemble bicycles for 46 needy school children.
At Bledsoe County prison in Pikeville, Tenn., 12 church members from Kingston provided 120 inmates with a Christmas meal, music, and gifts.
In Galax, Va., a tiny church that had recently considered closing instead invited the community to a Christmas party. Three hundred people attended, including 82 children who received new Bibles: 80 in English, two in Spanish.
We see these examples of extraordinary love throughout the year in Holston Conference -- but especially during the season of Advent and Christmas, when we celebrate an extraordinary love in the birth of Jesus Christ.
Beginning Dec. 25 here at Holston.org, we invite you to pause on each of the 12 Days of Christmas with 12 gift-giving stories from our churches and people.
Share your own stories and photos of extraordinary love by emailing thecall@holston.org.
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