Your Cards

With the holiday season in full swing, I thought it’d be a great time to introduce you to a brand new FREE eCard service called YourCards.

YourCards lets you fully customize your holiday greetings to support your favorite cause or charity while spreading holiday joy to individuals or your entire social network on Facebook or Twitter.

With every card, senders can include a linkable and brandable logo — presenting virtually limitless opportunities for self-expression, networking, and charitable support. Users can point their recipients to check out their favorite foundation to support the animals or charity to raise awareness for diseases in every eCard they send out. By including the logo and URL of a favorite cause or charity, people can spread the important message of giving over the holidays.

YourCards has an array of holiday themed eCards that we would love to have you check out.

Christmas Tree

Just think of this as a Christmas gift from me . . . no strings attached . . . a small silver Christmas tree. This is especially for those who are less fortunate and cannot afford to buy a tree . . . and for those who just want a little something different.

Celebrate the Holidays

Each day leading up to December 25th, visitors open a virtual door to reveal a way to give back to their community or contribute to global programs. In addition to charitable tips, behind each door visitors can find festive surprises including tracks from Peter Buffett’s beautiful holiday album, Star of Wonder, behind-the-scenes vlogs, and a first look at excerpts from Peter's upcoming book, Life is What You Make It.

The calendar can be viewed here: www.peterbuffett.com/advent.

Bible Explorer

Since we’re heading into the Christmas season, I thought you might like to know about this FREE piece of software for PC or Mac users. It’s called Bible Explorer and is a sweet study tool. It comes with over 200 free Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, and more.The software includes the American Standard Version (ASV), New International Version (NIV), New American Standard Bible (NASB) Bundle, King James Version (KJV), and the Bible in Basic English (BBE), just to list a few.

It doesn’t matter whether you follow the Catholic, Church of Christ, Dispensational, Lutheran, Mainline, Pentecostal, Puritan, Reformed, or Wesleyan doctrine, there is study material to help you out. There are also study aids written from Jewish Christian perspectives.

I can think of oodles of people who may enjoy this as a gift including ministers, church leaders, grandma (who can’t see well), parents, and kids, and the list goes on. Part of the broad range appeal is due to the special libraries you can add according to your needs. For example, there is a library for preachers and discipleships, etc .

There are just so many features and possibilities with this software, I can’t list them all. To find out if this software is a good fit for your needs, you can click here to discover more about Bible Explorer.

Recipe for Joy

Help donate 1 million meals to the hungry this holiday season. Simply send FREE holiday e-cards from American Greetings to your friends and family. For each card sent, Kraft Foods will donate 10 meals to Feeding America. Be among the first to experience the joy of giving and spread the word about this program. Visit Recipe For Joy and send a FREE holiday e-card today and every day through December 31, 2009. For more information about Feeding America, visit Feeding America.

Christmas Calendar

If your looking for fun activities to occupy your kids then this interactive Christmas calendar will probably be of interest.

The Christmas advent calendar that's counting down the days with FREE games and activities that are great for kids and the whole family!

Here are just some of the board games and activities that are on the calendar:

• Chutes and Ladders
• Trivia Games
• Coloring Pages
• Word Searches
• Word Scrambles
• Ornament Templates

See the advent at: http://www.optimalprint.co.uk/christmas-advent-calendar

All games are downloadable, printable, and easy to be laminated and reused!

Celebrate the 26 Days of Advent

Here are some fun family time activities to help your child learn the meaning of Christmas and remind them of how important they are to the world.

Whether you’re trying to reclaim peace, joy, love, or faith, these fun Advent guides may help.

The first is a 26-day guide for older children and adults. Each week begins with an article on the significance of that week’s theme, followed by seven days of thought-provoking questions for your reflection and written response through journaling. Together these lessons and exercises will take you through the 26 days of Advent and can help you find what you are seeking.

The second guide is great for family discussions and offers fun activities for younger children. It too is based around themes. It has articles to read as a family and a daily activity such as creating paper snowflakes, bird feeders, and more to help children learn the meaning of Christmas and to remind them of how important they are to the world.

Grab these two great resources here.

The First Gift of Christmas

When you join the Richard Paul Evans mailing list, $1 will be donated by Operation Kids to help abused and neglected children.

Also when you join the mailing list (offer good until 1231/09) you will receive a FREE downloadable audio copy of The First Gift of Christmas written and ready by Richard Paul Evans.

Each week someone from Richard's mailing list will win an autographed copy of Richard's latest book.

Chrstmas in July - Angels

Angels are a beautiful symbol and a wonderful decoration for your home. Whether you are decorating for the holidays or creating accents for various rooms, this collection of angel craft projects is full of lovely little angels that will brighten your home.

The editors have picked 16 of their favorite quick and easy angel crafts for this special eBook, including the popular clay pot garden angel (page 14), an angel wind chime (page 20), and the kid-friendly angel ornaments (page 40).