{"id":58,"date":"2014-11-03T10:54:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T10:54:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-11-03T10:54:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T10:54:01","slug":"come-shop-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/weekly-offerings\/2014\/11\/03\/come-shop-give\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Shop to Give"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 3px; border: 0px; float: right;\" title=\"Come Shop to Give\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/bpc_church_sign_medium250.jpg\" alt=\"Bellevue Sign - Alternative Gift Fair\" width=\"249\" height=\"166\" \/>This weekend, I had the pleasure of making the leisurely drive through the fall foliage from Louisville to Nashville, TN. It&#8217;s a trip I&#8217;ve made several times before to visit family or friends, but this time I was traveling as the guest of <a title=\"Bellevue Presbyterian Church\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bellevuepres.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bellevue Presbyterian Church<\/a>&nbsp;for their Alternative Giving Fair.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I received such a warm welcome from the BPC community, and loved the sign out front: &#8220;Come Shop to Give&#8221;.&nbsp;Everyone I met was so excited about the idea of purchasing alternative gifts for their friends and family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This weekend was a great opportunity for me to see our&nbsp;<a title=\"Ready, Set, Activation Kit!\" href=\"\/blogs\/Daily_Offerings\/2014\/10\/14\/ready-set-activation-kit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Activation Kit<\/a>&nbsp;in action &#8211; it really works! Has your congregation considered hosting an Alternative Giving Fair, or setting up a Tree of Hope in your narthex or fellowship hall? Send us an <a title=\"specialofferings@pcusa.org\" href=\"mailto:specialofferings@pcusa.org\" target=\"_blank\">email <\/a>with any questions, refill requests, or better yet &#8211; pictures from your event!<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Alternative Giving Fair\" src=\"\/site_media\/media\/uploads\/blogs\/table_small150.jpg\" alt=\"Giving Catalog Table\" width=\"150\" height=\"266\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Hanging Ornaments\" src=\"\/site_media\/media\/uploads\/blogs\/hanging_ornament_small150.jpg\" alt=\"Hanging Ornaments\" width=\"150\" height=\"266\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Tree of Hope\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/table_with_tree_small150.jpg\" alt=\"Giving Catalog Tree\" width=\"150\" height=\"266\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>This weekend was a great opportunity for me to see our&nbsp;<\/span><a title=\"Ready, Set, Activation Kit!\" href=\"\/blogs\/Daily_Offerings\/2014\/10\/14\/ready-set-activation-kit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Activation Kit<\/a><span>&nbsp;in action &#8211; it really works! Has your congregation considered hosting an Alternative Giving Fair, or setting up a Tree of Hope in your narthex or fellowship hall? Send us an&nbsp;<\/span><a title=\"specialofferings@pcusa.org\" href=\"mailto:specialofferings@pcusa.org\" target=\"_blank\">email&nbsp;<\/a><span>with any questions, refill requests, or better yet &#8211; pictures from your event!<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[69,70,5,6],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-activation-kit","tag-alternative-giving-fair","tag-giving-catalog","tag-special-offerings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v23.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Come Shop to Give - Where Your Heart Is...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/weekly-offerings\/2014\/11\/03\/come-shop-give\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Come Shop to Give\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This weekend was a great opportunity for me to see our&nbsp;Activation Kit&nbsp;in action - it really works! 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