It’s called an Alternative Gift Market, and it’s going on at First Plymouth this Saturday and Sunday. It’s your opportunity to give something a little different this holiday season – something will give at least twice. Come sample a wide array of fair trade and earth-friendly gifts and support artists and artisans around the world at this special market. (And then head across the street and check out the World Gift Market at First Universalist Church – even more opportunities for great earth-friendly holiday shopping!)
This is a chance to simplify your holiday gift-giving and help others at the same time, to support those with needs greater than our own by purchasing and sharing their talents with others. Unique, socially conscious selections make your holiday shopping a pleasant and satisfying experience.
Among your shopping and gift-giving opportunities at the Alternative Gift Market: Sabeel, Earthlinks, Yobel Market, the Heifer Project, Habitat for Humanity and Women Build/Habitat, Outreach Uganda, Sanyork Fair Trade, Jasmine Company, A Mark on the World, the Women’s Bean Project, the Alzheimer’s Association, the Support Africa Foundation, People of Hope/Project Salvador, and Project Rwanda.
There is also a fantastic silent auction benefitting two community programs. The English Language Acquisition (ELA) project, co-sponsored by First Plymouth and Temple Sinai, teaches English to about 100 recent immigrants at any given time, allowing them to find work and live with dignity in a new culture. Volunteers provide the teaching, but the workbooks cost $30 per student per year. The Inner City Health Center provides medical and dental care for a nearly 7,000 uninsured Denver residents. Over eighty health care professionals donate their time, but funds are needed for medical supplies.
AND a bake sale to benefit First Plymouth youth programs, lots of great Christmas music, community, fellowship, and fun. All at 3501 South Colorado Boulevard on the corner of Hampden Avenue from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday and 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Sunday. (Come worship with us Sunday morning, too, at 9:00 a.m. or 11:11 a.m. – we’d love to see you there as well!)
Need more information or directions? Call the church office at 303-762-0616.
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