It's better to GIVE than to RECEIVE. We believe that.

We believe it so much that we are offering GIVE CARDS - a creative way to give the gift of giving. What could be better than giving people the opportunity to donate to a cause they are passionate about?

Here’s how it works…

1. You purchase a GIVE CARD for $25, $50, or $100.
2. You give the GIVE CARD as a gift.
3. The GIVE CARD recipients choose a cause they’re passionate about.
4. They go online at www.christmasdifferent.org and designate the gift to their cause.

It's that SIMPLE, it's that POWERFUL, it's that DIFFERENT...

Your give card recipient can choose any one of the following causes:

• Fires
Meet critical needs of families whose homes were lost by the fire devastation

• HIV/AIDS
Supply anti-viral medication for those suffering with HIV/AIDS in Africa

• Wheelchairs
Transform a life with the gift of mobility to the poorest of the poor around the world

• Homes
Provide a secure home for needy families just across our border living in cardboard shacks and makeshift shelters

• At-Risk Families
Give gifts and support for local at-risk families who would not otherwise experience Christmas

If a designation is not made by January 31, 2009, the GIVE CARD amount will be distributed equally among all five causes.

GIVE CARDS CAN BE REDEEMED

Isaiah 61 (New International Version) The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor. They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. Aliens will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards. And you will be called priests of the LORD, you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast. Instead of their shame my people will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace they will rejoice in their inheritance; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs. "For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity. In my faithfulness I will reward them and make an everlasting covenant with them. Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed. "I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.