Christmas Giving

Stricker Christmas Card 2011

Stricker Christmas Card 2012

Last Christmas I came up with the brilliant idea to send a Christmas card dedicated to a cause.   My brilliant idea is joined by many people who have gone before me to find a way to use their family holiday mailing to do more than greet.  Last year we sent a card with the two kids on the front.  Chloe at her lemonade stand selling her brother for $5 while he sat to one side completely clueless to the marketing.  Inside it encouraged people to support International Justice Mission.  They are an organization who helps free people from the bondage of human trafficking.  Click Here to read more about this incredible organization.


This Christmas, since we are beginning to learn the art of keeping, raising, and breeding animals, we thought it would be a great idea to find an organization with a similar heart.  Heifer International is an organization aimed at helping teach people how to learn something that can eventually pull them out of poverty and starvation to give them work and a future.  It teaches a vocation along with gifting the animals or seeds. Maybe this year you will consider giving to (Click Here)Heifer International or International Justice Mission or another organization close to home.

Photography for both photos was graciously done by Todd Stricker of Todd Stricker Photography.  I am thankful for the ability to buy food at the grocery store to feed my family and I am not completely dependent on the weather and my animals to  grow crop to sustain us.(Day 25)  Although, it does sound like a GREAT plan, sustainable living seems like more work to me at this particular point in time.  I'll get there, eventually.  I might become a vegetarian, though. Goodnight Friends.