The first Tuesday in December has been picked up as a Global Day of Giving, when everyone is asked to consider making an additional generous gift to bless a neighbour, colleague, friend or charity.
On Tuesday 2 December 2014, charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give.
On this Global Day of Giving everyone is asked to consider making an additional generous gift to bless a neighbour, colleague, friend or charity. We can do this by making a donation to a cause, by giving our time, by baking a cake, or showing hospitality. For Christians it’s an opportunity to remember God’s generosity to, and to extend that love to others.
You could plan in advance what you might do, or you might just respond generously to a need that you encounter on December 2nd.
David Butterfield (the Archdeacon for Generous Giving and Stewardship) said, “From time to time I ask myself the question, ‘Am I a generous person?’ I’m still working on it! Giving Tuesday is a God-given opportunity to be a generous person. The amazing thing about being generous is that, according to Jesus, the giver will be more blessed than the recipient, because he said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive’.”
Giving Tuesday is being launched in the UK this year the Charities Aid Foundation. The Church of England’s Stewardship Committee encourages Church members everywhere to join in.
For more information, see: www.givingtuesday.org.uk