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15 ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS GIFTS

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GROWING PAINS

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LOCAL SOCIAL JUSTICE

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DON'T HAVE A GREEN THUMB? YOU CAN STILL START PLANTING. START SMALL Plant things you actually like eating!

SKIP THE SEEDS. PLANT SEED STARTS When starting out, you don't need to buy a seed packet with a hundred seeds. Go to a farmers' market that sells seeds that have already sprouted.

BE THOUGHTFUL OF WHERE YOU PLANT Make sure there's lots of sun and that there's easy to access for harvesting and watering.

SOIL The most important thing is soil and that it has organic matter in it.

WEED CONTROL To mulch, put driedout grass clippings, cardboard, or straw on the soil to suppress the weeds.

Mulching stabilizes the soil temperature and moisture, and prevents sunlight from germinating weed seeds.

OBSERVE, LEARN, & HAVE FUN Don't get discouraged if your plants die. Some things will grow better than others. It’s a learning process! You have nothing to lose so have lots of fun. Don't forget to TRY a couple things!

DON'T PUT ALL YOUR EFFORT INTO ONE CROP This might be discouraging.

Try planting a few different plants. Though you might lose one, a lot of them will survive.

REWARD YOURSELF Taste what you've grown. It's so good when you pick it in the end — ripe, fresh, delicious!

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OUTSIDE THE BOX These are the ultimate â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the thought that countsâ&#x20AC;? gifts â&#x20AC;&#x201D; except hopefully without the secret disappointment or eye rolls on the part of the receiver.

ALTERNATIVE

CHRISTMAS GIFTS ?hk mahl^ pah ]hgĂ?m pZgm mh chbg ma^ lhne&dbeebg` \hglnf^&Z&mahg maZm kngl _khf Gho^f[^k mbee ;hqbg` =Zr Zm Z fZee g^Zk rhn% mZd^ a^Zkm' A^k^ Zk^ lhf^ Zem^kgZmbo^l _hk ma^ `b_m&`bobg` l^Zlhg'

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Recipe rolodex This can be a book, a recipe box, or an online collection. Gather time-tested recipes from family and friends for that special someone who loves to cook, is learning to cook, or needs a hint that the kitchen is more than the sum of its freezer and microwave.

Pinterest sleuth You know all those DIY projects that get pinned but never made? Choose something doable from a friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board, and make it for them! Oh the surprise on their face when they realize they recognize the gift!

Plus you already know theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll love it.

THRIFTED GIFTS These gifts are perfect if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on a tight budget or love the thrill of a good find.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re new to thrifting, this list will help you sort through the clutter and zero in on some great items you can find in almost every second-hand store!

CSA veggie box So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not exactly outside the box, but signing your family up for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Community-Supported Agricultureâ&#x20AC;? veggie box is a gift that just keeps giving. A quick Google search will help you find a farm that can deliver a box of local seasonal veggies once or twice a month.

Pottery mugs You may have to dig through some cow-spotted cups and Comic-Sans-adorned â&#x20AC;&#x153;Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best Dadâ&#x20AC;? mugs, but there are almost always some ceramic gems in the back.

Bracelets and bangles Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much more fun to mix and match when the selection is truly eclectic and nothing costs more than a toonie.

Classic board games Oh, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sorry,â&#x20AC;? I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Clueâ&#x20AC;? that Scrabble could still be played in real life, with real friends.

Other recommendations: Tri-Bond, Balderdash, and Cranium â&#x20AC;&#x201D; usually for a few bucks each!

CDs Imagine getting an entire album for the price of two songs on iTunes; an album that can be easily loaded into a digital library. Treat a friend to the musical stylings of Wyclef Jean, Will Smith, or Alanis Morissette â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just a few of the regulars on the thrift store CD racks.

Picture frames Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a classic gift: printing out a special picture and framing it. With the money youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll save buying second-hand frames, you could even get a few extra photos enlarged. If you find uniquely sized and shaped frames and want to unify them somehow, spray paint works wonders!

Magazine subscription Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always nice to get something in the mail, especially when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full colour, with beautiful pictures, and overflowing with fascinating, relevant content.

Give junk mail a reason to shudder; send a friend something theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll actually want to read. (A Converge subscription is just $12 for the year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; wink, wink, nudge, nudge).

Buy Nothing Christmas You could always throw out this list and actively resist the commercialization and commodification of Christmas. Join a group of cheeky but inspired Canadian Mennonites who are leading a national movement that reminds us to ask, â&#x20AC;&#x153;WWJB?â&#x20AC;? buynothingchristmas.org

These gifts arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always cheap, but their impact lasts long after the final Christmas orange is eaten and every gift but the new iPad ends up in the closet. With the many life-changing choices to give on behalf of your friends and family, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something for everyone (including you; you get a tax receipt!).

CHARITABLE CHOICES

Solar lighting Perfect for the uncle who drives the veggieoil van and whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working to one day get off the grid. Solar lanterns are a great alternative to kerosene lamps which can cause respiratory illness in children and require constant refills of costly fuel. compassion.ca/ shop, $100.

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Coffee seedlings Perhaps this item would pair well with a pottery mug from the thrift store and a pound of fair-trade coffee. The gift helps farmers grow an income from one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best-loved crops. fhcanada.org/ gifts, $20.

Teach a mom to read This gift will hit home for mothers. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never easy to raise a child, but illiteracy can make the job harder. This gift provides literacy classes for a new mother to open doors for her and her family. compassion.ca/shop, $30.

Birth certificate You know that person whose birthday falls close to Christmas, and so they always complain about getting fewer gifts? They wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the heart to resent this birthdayChristmas combo.

A birth certificate provides a child with proof of existence and protection against child trafficking. plan.ca/ GiftsofHope, $25.

Clean water Could you convince your entire family or church to forgo traditional giving this year? Get involved with the Advent Conspiracy, a movement encouraging groups and individuals to give relationally, and put their budgeted gift money towards clean water initiatives worldwide. adventconspiracy.org.

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of households in the DTES are below the poverty line.

27% are below the poverty line in Vancouver 86 SINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY HOTELS 4,272 units but still 2,600+ people left homeless

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1,000 WOMEN are in the sex trade in the inner city

Avg. age of entry: 14 Avg. life expectancy: 40 97% use illegal drugs 26% are HIV+ with only 6% receiving treatment

Source: City of Vancouver

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SADLY, MANY OF US ONLY GIVE WHAT WE DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T WANT FOR OURSELVES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; THE LEFTOVERS AND THE USED.

on stage this Christmas at

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

adapted from the novel by CS Lewis

â&#x20AC;&#x153;a dream so beautiful you remember it your entire life, always wishing you could get back into that dream again.â&#x20AC;?

Dec 5-15 at Pacific Theatre Dec 19-22 at The Evergreen Cultural Centre (Coquitlam)

info and tickets: www.pacifictheatre.org 604.731.5518

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WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO WITH $26?

THE $26 CHALLENGE â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of the $610 a month the B.C. government provides for a person on welfare, after paying for accommodation, bus tickets and cellphone (necessary to look for work), and basic hygiene only $109 remains for food â&#x20AC;&#x201C; less than $26 for a week." www.welfarefoodchallenge.org

Raise the Rates recently launched the Welfare Food Challenge. The challenge is to live for a week on the food budget that a single, able-bodied person on welfare would have â&#x20AC;&#x201D; spending only $26. Here's a look at what a few participants bought with the budget.

We looked at how far this weekly allowance could go on our favourite staples and favourite spots

24 Cup Noodles in a warehouse flat plus 12 more single Cup Noodles.

Seven tall caramel macchiatos at Starbucks.

Participant #1 Five Happy Meals from McDonalds.

Four regular BLT or turkey breast sandwich combos at Tim Horton's.

Three Single Bypass Burgers at Heart Attack Grill (though we can't fathom just why you would have more than one in a week . . . or ever).

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One large beef souvlaki and Greek salad at your neighbourhood Greek tavern.

One pasta and dessert at Anton's Pasta Bar with a really slim tip left over.

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Prawn and scallop spaghettini at Cactus Club. No drink. Slim tip.

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Unearthing

THE TRUTH

By Chelsea Batten

Above: Leslie Spencer | Photo by Chelsea Batten

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In society, and especially as Christians, we're afraid to fail.

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"God's got him, and God's got me, too. I don't need to wish him ill. I don't need that in my life â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to be bitter and angry, always thinking about what he has and I don't.

He gets as much grace as I do."

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The people who constantly encourage her with the prospect of a happy second marriage, she says, are saying it because they need to believe it.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Monastic vows . . . must be absolutely abolished . . . For he who makes a vow to live as a monk believes that he will enter upon a mode of life holier than ordinary Christians lead, and wishes to earn heaven by his own works.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let us see the nature of the vows by which the monks of the present day are initiated . . . As their intention is to institute a new and fictitious worship with a view to gain favour with God, I conclude . . . that every thing which they vow is abomination to God.â&#x20AC;?

So spoke the Protestants Martin Luther and John Calvin during the heady days of the Reformation. The distaste for and distrust of monastic orders evident in their words reflects a consensus which has prevailed, more or less, in the churches descending from their theological break from Rome. Whatever other differences there are between Protestants, surely they agree on this one thing: monasteries and convents are not a Protestant idea. Surely monasticism is a tad too close to Roman Catholicism . . .

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THE FRACTURED CHURCH

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Servants Vancouver Community WHERE: In the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver, B.C. IN THE BEGINNING: Servants Vancouver is part of an international organization called Servants to Asiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Urban Poor. Founders Craig and Nay Greenfield had spent six years living and working in a slum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Returning to the West, they wanted to live out the Servants principles (incarnation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; living among those you serve, simplicity, servanthood, wholism, and community) in a Western context. Arriving in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, they asked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What is the bad news in this neighbourhood?â&#x20AC;? and realized that the greatest poverties are probably loneliness and isolation. In order to counter this bad news with the Good News, the Servants community in the DTES was established to live with â&#x20AC;&#x153;radical hospitality,â&#x20AC;? to have open doors for people in need, to blur the lines between those on the margins and those with Servants, and to build mutual relationships.

WHY IS IT BETTER TOGETHER? It is better together, but it is also harder together. That is why we believe that every intentional community needs to have a clear purpose for living life together; otherwise the community will not last. We know that the kind of intense ministry we do in the DTES (having three open community dinners a week, having people stay with us as they wait for a place in a rehab program, etc.) could not be done by an individual or a single family.

We need a strong community to carry the load together and to create a space of loving relationships that people can enter into.

We sometimes compare community life to marriage. Accountability, openness to speak into each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives, and sharing space and resources all help us to grow in maturity, humility and grace.

WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE? We are in the process of restructuring the community. Thus far, all of our community members have been â&#x20AC;&#x153;full time neighboursâ&#x20AC;? on financial support. In 2013 weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re opening the community up to people who work a paid part-time job (or go to school part-time). We are also looking for new ways of empowering and integrating our friends from the DTES into our community.

FOR MORE INFO: servantsasia.org Tom Wartenweiler, Servants Vancouver Team Leader, tom@servantsasia.org Check out the short documentary Kids on the Block about the Servants Vancouver community:

New monasticism takes a stand against self-absorbed Christianity and says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, it's not all about you. It's about Christ and his body in this world; the Church.â&#x20AC;?

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Little Flowers Community WHERE: West End of Winnipeg, Man. IN THE BEGINNING: The short story is that the church was formed out of a group of inner city people who began to share life together. It is a partnership between YWAM Urban Ministries Winnipeg and Mennonite Church Manitoba.

WHY IS IT BETTER TOGETHER? It is better together because that is how we are created to be.

Community is a fundamental aspect of what it means to be created in the image of the Godhead, Three-InOne. The work of sin disintegrates.

The work of Christ is to welcome us into His resurrection Body, as the Church.

WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE? We are developing an affordable housing initiative called Chiara House that will provide safe and dignified housing, especially for people with mental health dynamics. It will also house a small intentional community.

FOR MORE INFO: littleflowers.ca chiarahouse.ca Jamie Arpin-Ricci: (204) 898-7319

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Like every worthwhile movement in the Church, new monasticism is less about innovation than it is the rediscovery of something very old and very good.

The Jeremiah Community WHERE:

The short answer is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re located in the west Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale. The longer answer is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re currently a dispersed community without a permanent location.

Through the tremendous hospitality of the local Franciscan order, we do have a place to gather regularly for worship. So, between the Franciscan mission, the living rooms of community members, and various missional activities in the area, we are finding ways to establish a common rhythm of life, even in dispersion. I am sure that this predicament will not sound strange to someone familiar with grassroots intentional communities. But our story is actually somewhat different.

As an Anglican community, we exist within the episcopal structures of the Diocese of Toronto. But as an intentional and new monastic community, we have found the traditional parochial structures to be overly limiting. We are thus beginning a journey out of the parish system and toward a status something akin to a traditional religious order. We continue to embrace our Anglican identity â&#x20AC;&#x201D; our Eucharistic worship, the support of our Diocese, and the oversight of our Bishop â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but we have significant discernment and much work ahead of us. Of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;12 marksâ&#x20AC;? of new monasticism, â&#x20AC;&#x153;humble submission to Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body, the church,â&#x20AC;? is the mark that we have wrestled with most intensely. In this struggle there exists the possibility (and the reality) of injury, but also the promise of a blessing.

IN THE BEGINNING:

At the risk of sounding abstruse, I would say that the origins of the Jeremiah Community can be traced to the confluence of two sets of forces, two separate but attuned movements that were attempting to draw the church beyond Christendom.

We began in 2009 as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Jeremiah Project,â&#x20AC;? an initiative of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto. The community was founded as a church plant out of a historic parish in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s west end. Like many Anglican dioceses in the UK, the Diocese of Toronto was coming to see the importance of supporting â&#x20AC;&#x153;fresh expressions of church.â&#x20AC;? So, from within a mainline denomination, there was an emerging willingness to encourage new and creative ways of being church.

Simultaneously, in other sectors of the church, the radical potential of monasticism was being recovered and newly contextualized. The founding leaders of the Jeremiah Community rightly saw the chance for a productive convergence between these two movements â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fresh Expressions and New Monasticism. They wagered on the possibility that in the coming together of these two movements a larger movement â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the movement of the Spirit â&#x20AC;&#x201D; might find expression. They called together a number of individuals and families who were passionate about the Gospel, interested in living missionally-oriented lives, and committed to a common rule of life.

Thus, the Jeremiah Community was born.

The language of forces and movements is appropriate here not because the individuals who constitute the nucleus of the community are the nameless bearers of historical and institutional forces, but because as these particular individuals, called to faithful and creative discipleship, we also participate in a movement that is larger than we are.

WHY IS IT BETTER TOGETHER?

This whole project would be vain without an understanding of the church as that people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as that community â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who come together, in gratitude, as a response to the gracious act of God in Christ. It would be impossible without a committed core of members.

WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE?

Our exodus from traditional parochial structures, and from the particular parish which gave us birth, has brought us into a phase of wandering. This wandering is not aimless, however. We have learned to gratefully acknowledge our situation of insecurity and we have learned, from our patron prophet, Jeremiah, to embrace our dispersion. We are gathering strength from our common life of prayer and formation.

We are deepening our partnerships with other Christian communities in the neighbourhood. We are even developing a relationship with another local parish. And in all of this we are discerning the call of the Spirit.

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As we look to the future I would anticipate a focus on two areas: deepening the spirituality of our common life and experimenting with new missional and ministry initiatives. Let me give an example of each. We are exploring what it means, practically and theologically, to keep Sabbath together. This celebration of Sabbath (on the seventh day) is distinct from, but nonetheless related to, Sunday worship (on the first day). It seems to me that the anti-Judaism that has made many Christians skeptical of Jewish liturgical practices is a perspective that should be abandoned to the smoldering ashes of Christendom.

In terms of possible future ministry initiatives, I am engaged in some interesting conversations with the Junia House community, another new monastic community here in Parkdale. We are dreaming together about an experiment in alternative theological education. The fundamental shift that is taking place in the church, from â&#x20AC;&#x153;attractionalâ&#x20AC;? to â&#x20AC;&#x153;missionalâ&#x20AC;? models, will necessarily have reverberations in the institutions that serve the church: namely, in the seminaries. What better way to equip future theologians and ministry practitioners to serve a postChristendom church than to train them in communities that have learned, as John Howard Yoder puts it, to receive â&#x20AC;&#x153;diaspora as graceâ&#x20AC;??

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