An Uncommon Gift for the Common Good
Instead of a season of peace and bliss, Christmas ends up a season of stress, traffic jams, and shopping lists. Ugly sweaters, ill patterned ties, and random gift cards fill brightly colored boxes every year. Americans spend, on average, $450 billion every Christmas. What if that money went to the needy, the homeless, or the forgotten? It would be revolutionary.
The Uncommon Gift Mall is a resource for Anchorage to give differently, give fully, and give lovingly. Imagine opening up a gift on Christmas morning that says “In your honor, 50 bowls of soup were purchased to feed homeless in downtown Anchorage.” No ugly ties to store, but someone’s life will be changed.
A wide variety of booths, donation amounts, and meaningful gifts will fill the ChangePoint Commons.
Inspire the whole family with this shopping experience that won’t soon be forgotten!
The Uncommon Gift Mall – a place at Christmas to share Life in Christ with Alaska and the World Beyond.
Click here to check out the catalog.
* indicates organizations that will still be selling their items after the event. Go to changepointalaska.com or contact group directly
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Arctic Barnabas * |
Arctic Barnabas Ministries is dedicated to supporting and encouraging pastors and missionaries who serve across the Alaskan bush to share Jesus Christ and represent Him faithfully in the midst of a challenging environment. We specialize in providing pastoral care, service projects, and retreat opportunities for these courageous servants. Click here for photos and more information. Suggested Donation: $40 provides gifts to a family; $100 provides groceries; see more |
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YoungLives * |
YoungLives is a one-on-one mentoring ministry. We match teen moms with Christian women who earn the right to tell them the message of hope in Jesus. We encourage them to graduate high school, parent well and look forward to a future for themselves and their children. Will you help support us as we model Jesus Christ's love to young women who may not have experienced real love before? Suggested Donation: Varies |
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Young Life * |
Young Life lives on school campuses to share Christ and make disciples in high school and middle school through small group mentorship and camps. Monies raised will help kids have “the best week of their life” at camp where they are able to drop the walls that surround their hearts and talk freely about hurts, struggles, and God. Selling: Coffee Mugs |
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Alaska Christian College & New Hope Counseling Center |
All funds support the Alaska Native students who attend this 2 year Christian college in Soldotna, AK. Most students have limited funding coming from Bush Alaska and we seek to support them the most we can! Help provide academic scholarships as well as scholarships for professional counseling through this program. No other college reaches Alaskans like this! Click here to read and see more! Selling: Ornament cards with student pictures |
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Funks – Missionaries |
The Funk family's ministry in Hooper Bay has proven to be one of the most culturally relevant ministries in bush Alaska. Training youth leaders by mentoring them in village life, taking them thousands of miles to native leadership summits and helping them learn and develop skills to become productive members of their community has been at the center of the Funks' ministry for the past 9 years. Their leadership in teaching young people in aviation science has grown into a ministry called AVSTEM which they hope will open doors for teaching in many bush communities where youth ministries may also be developed. Selling: Native foods |
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Schaafsma Missionaries *
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The Schaafsmas are ChangePoint missionaries and church planters stationed in Italy. They have a unique opportunity to help raise the necessary $90,000 to reach the city of Milan with the Gospel of Jesus through Radio Vita. This is the only evangelical radio station that has the legal right and government approval to broadcast in Milan. Selling: Italian Pasta (includes one of Nina’s authentic Italian recipes) watercolors & other exciting items. |
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Compassion International |
Compassion International exists as a Christian child advocacy ministry that releases children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty and enables them to become responsible, fulfilled Christian adults. www.compassion.com |
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EPIC ChangePoint Student Ministry * |
ChangePoint senior high school students have a variety of opportunities to share the love of Jesus with people in our city, state, country, and world. Support EPIC mission journeys in Anchorage, Old Harbor, Chicago, and Cachi, Costa Rica. Selling: Jute Bags from India, EPICwear |
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Royal Family Kids’
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This annual residential camp is designed to pour the love of Jesus into children who are a part of Alaska’s foster care system. At RFKC, each child becomes part of a family pod that does everything together – eats, sleeps, plays. The children are treated like royalty throughout the week. Selling: Book: Castaway Kids, pillowcases, & notecards |
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Coffee 4 Kids * |
Tina Jackson Selling: Coffee |
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Adopt-A-Family for Christmas |
Adopt a family from ChangePoint who, because of difficult circumstances, would be unable to provide gifts and a Christmas dinner for their family. Receive a family and deliver to them, donate money, or provide gift cards. A great project for the whole family! Dave Bacher 646-4857 |
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New Direction Resource Center * |
New Direction educates at-risk youth who need a more supportive academic environment, and equips them to graduate high school. Monies raised will be used to replace old and obsolete curriculum for our students. |
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Downtown Soup Kitchen |
We provide warm soup and a sandwich, with a side of hope and love to up to 400 people each day who hunger in our community. Over 90,000 meals are served each year by more than 125 volunteers to individuals, families, and a growing number of children who are homeless or in crisis. In addition to a warm meal, prayer and friendship, we also provide showers, laundry, and emergency clothing to our city’s growing number of homeless and working poor neighbors. Click here to see more. Selling: Spoon Ornaments |
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Parachutes Teen Club and Resource Center |
Parachutes demonstrates the unconditional love of Jesus to teenagers by seeking to minister to their physical, social and spiritual needs. Activities include giving teens a safe, social space monitored by adults (located at the Dimond Mall). Selling: Art made by Parachute Community |
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Youth for Christ |
Youth for Christ reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus. These young people lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the Word of God and prayer, passion for sharing the love of Christ and commitment to social involvement. Monies raised will be used to cover costs of Campus Clubs & for scholarships to various camps. Selling: Dry Bags |
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Crisis Pregnancy
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An unwanted pregnancy can be a lonely and terrifying experience. The Crisis Pregnancy Center of Anchorage is a Christian ministry whose mission is to demonstrate the love of Christ by providing practical services, including emotional and spiritual support to men and women in unplanned pregnancy and family crisis situations. Selling: Cookbooks |
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Warehouse Compassion Ministry |
The Warehouse Ministry at ChangePoint is a place that people can donate gently used household items and receive a receipt. We get many calls every day from people needing help and this is one way we can reach out to them. If you have items, or if you need help, contact us. Lillian Lauwers 646-4822 |
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Zimmermans – Missionaries to Paupau, New Guinea |
The Zimmermans are missionaries to Papua New Guinea. 2,500 of the world's 6,500 people groups have never heard the Good News. Millions of men, women and children are still isolated from the Gospel. New Tribes Mission focuses on this problem. Eric serves as an Aircraft Maintenance Technician and supports the work in that region of the world. Contact: Eric Zimmerman: |
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Burnams – Reign Ministry |
The Burnams are ChangePoint missionaries who work with Reign Ministries. Their ministry consists of two areas. The first is to take students, 13-18 years old, on summer mission trips all over the world with Royal Servants, a divistion of Reign Ministries. Secondly, Curtis trains youth pastors in all of Latin America in how to develop a disciple-making youth ministry. , 772-463-9518 |
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InterAct |
Stretched across the top of the North Pacific Ocean is a crescent, spanning western Canada, Alaska and Siberian Russia, with many communities and peoples hidden from the Gospel. This region includes 12,000 communities that lack a visible expression of the church of Jesus Christ. InterAct Ministries envisions every single one of those places not only having a body of believers, but experiencing the transformation that Jesus brings through the church, His primary change agent for the world. InterAct longs to see Jesus worshipped in every one of those communities, so that God's Glory might fill the North Pacific Crescent. Contact: Mark Overbeek, |
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ChangePoint Preschool Outreach * |
CP Preschoolers are learning how God can use their tithes and offerings to provide for the physical needs of those in the community. These funds are the sole support for providing basic essentials for the men from the halfway house who help maintain our building through a work program. CP is partnered with Anchorage’s halfway house by providing a work program for men who are transitioning from jail back into the community. Our Facilities Team works with these men teaching maintenance and janitorial skills, praying with them, studying scripture and providing opportunity to give back to society by serving and putting others first before themselves. Selling: Solar Flowers, Handmade Cutting Boards (made by men from halfway house), Luggage & Diaper Tags Contact: Lori Privoznik, 646-4860, |
