Share Your Heart with DaySpring Giveaway (2 Winners)

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This month, I am sharing giving ideas and special giveaways as part of The 30-Day Giving Challenge.

DaySpring won my heart last year with their beautiful products and online selection. Then I had the great pleasure of meeting the folks behind the scenes at DaySpring while attending the Relevant Conference last month.

The DaySpring staff loves helping people share their heart and God’s love with messages of hope and encouragement. They are passionate about social media and working with bloggers as well. I witnessed this first-hand, and I was thrilled when DaySpring gladly came on board as our next official sponsor.

Each of the ten bloggers on the team chose a unique set of products from DaySpring to donate to the local charity of our choice. It was not an easy decision, but I selected the Christmas Tree to Cross collection, including a framed print, necklace, ornament and mug.

The message behind the collection is a perfect reminder: “When you strip away all the tinsel and glitter… God’s real truth shines through.”

So true! And just the message I try to instill in my children each Christmas.

DaySpring has also generously provided me with $50 codes to make Christmas a little brighter for two KingdomFirstMom.com readers.

Enter to win 1 of (2) $50 Gift Codes to DaySpring.com for your family to enjoy or share:

  • Leave a comment below (required entry): How are you planning to share your heart and God’s love this holiday season?

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For up to (2) Bonus Entries (leave a separate comment for each):

This giveaway will end on Friday (11/19) at 9 PM EST. The winner will be drawn at random, and notified via email.

Disclosure:  DaySpring provided me with a selection of products to donate to the charity of my choice. As always, the opinions in this post are completely my own.

Be sure to visit the other bloggers hosting the 30-Day Giving Challenge for more ideas and giveaways:

Comments

  1. says

    It’s going to be touch this holiday season as it’ll be my first Thanksgiving and Christmas at someone else house other than my folks. My Dad is gone and my Mother landed in a rehab/nursing facility early this year. I hope to share my love for her and the love of Christ with her and my brother’s family this year. It isn’t going to be easy for any of us.
    Lee Ann L.´s last blog post ..WIP- Maxine Quilt

  2. rachael says

    This year we have a lot to be thankful for. I mom should be out of the hosptail and recovering at home. She has cancer and has made it through so much and god has stood and held her hand and I couldn’t be more thankful. So this year we are heading back to more basic things like gods love and not things like gifts.

  5. sue a says

    I try each year to add something meaningful. This year we will be donating toys and items to fill shoe boxes. The kids have gone through their toys and picked out gently used balls, stuffed animals etc.

  7. Denise Wilson says

    LOVE the Christmas Tree to Cross!! So true!

    We always look forward to celebrating this time of year. This year, we will be sharing our love by sharing the gospel with our lost family members. My son is really starting to understand the true meaning of the holiday.

  9. Chris M says

    One way we are teaching our young daughter to share God’s love is by doing the ‘Christmas Shoe Boxes’. They use some of the money they earned and help pick out some of the items that we place in the box. I am also planning to have them help make cookies to share with others in our neighborhood.

  14. Kristin says

    Since I am a mommy to 3, going on 4, little ones, my priority is teaching them the TRUE meaning of Christmas. We’ll be reading lots of the Nativity story in the bible and doing projects for our home school as well 🙂 So excited for my kids to understand why we really celebrate!

  16. CHRISTINA says

    with my new savings while couponing, i have been donating to the food bank, along with helping those that have been struggling in my own family

  17. Alice F says

    Sharing the joy with mission outreach through our church. Help with our Boar’s Head festival and donations of my stockpile to the Seminary, local food back and missions.

  18. Danielle P says

    I plan on hosting our family Christmas at our house this year.. Man we have a big family.. I am thrilled though that God provided me the house for it.. I love helping others too. Our church is great with outreach programs. I will be helping in any way God sees for me to assist.. I love Christmas because we get to remember the Gift of Jesus that keeps on giving..

  25. Rebecca says

    We will be baking for the nursing home, packaging up cookies and cards to visit there and hand out. It’s a good way to bring a little Christmas to them, bringing my girls.

  28. Jennifer B says

    we are sending packages over seas to the soldiers, and writing personal messages on the Bibles that are going with them, it was my daughter’s idea

  31. bonnie says

    My husband and I are retired and we have started the blessed holiday season again this year by collecting from stores and wrapping over 100 shoe boxes for Operation ShoeBox. This always put the Christmas spirit in us! Our next holiday spirit is to get our old magazines for the year and wrap them along with baked goodies for the nursing home. There is so much to be done to help others to put the true meaning of Christmas in all of us!! God Bless America!

  34. says

    I’m hoping to do something for some poorer relatives of mine. At the very least, I hope to convince them to have lunch with us Christmas day.

  38. says

    We recently came into a little extra money, and we plan to share God’s love this holiday season by using it for things that glorify God and do His kingdom work. We’re thrilled to be able to have the opportunity to do for others!

  39. says

    We plan to share God’s love this season through hospitality. My 7 year old DD always makes pecan & pumpkin pies from scratch & then we make Thanksgiving “meal boxes” that we give to our favorite local charity to give to families in need. We start the week after Thanksgiving readying our hearts and minds for Hanukkah and Advent. We celebrate Yeshua as the light of the world and re-dedicate His temple (ourselves) to Him. We give casseroles and baked goods to friends & neighbors, make handmade gifts for each other, cards for the nursing home, and free babysitting for some our church friends. We are so grateful for this season to remind the world of it’s true light, Jesus Christ!
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  42. says

    This year we are starting a new tradition of having both sides of our family join together at our home to celebrate. This way no one gets left out.

  44. Julie V says

    We’re giving food and clothing to a local Christian organization that helps families at Christmas

  46. melissa says

    My daughter and I made an advent calendar last weekend, we already had one, but this was a fun project. As I finished she pointed out that we already had one for ornaments and we talked about what would fit in the tiny drawers of this one. it’s too small for candy and she said what about prayers? So we are putting in names of people we know to pray for.

  50. Lori says

    My son applied for a grant from college to help a family out this year who is financially struggling. I plan to help our with this endeavor. Also, looking to touch the unexpected this Christmas season.

  51. says

    This holiday season we will open our home to guests. We will volunteer at our local Feed My Starving Children. We are packing boxes for OCC. We’re choosing a child to sponsor (with gifts) through our churchs’ angel tree. And we are SO excited to celebrate Christs’ birth by giving!
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  54. says

    As many, this will be a difficult season for my family but I know that I still have so much more than so many others. My focus this year is that we will give and serve as a family to others. We’ve had so many Christmas’s filled with wonderful blessings that it would feel so good to be able to help others have that this year.

  61. Melissa says

    I will be sharing a “Christmas Jar” that was inspired by your blog when I found the information on the Christmas Jars book. So exciting to see who God will lead us to help out.

  62. Vicki Hornsby says

    I plan to share God’s love with my family and with our children in the military. I love sending cards to the men and women in our military. I usually make sure my grand-children are involved in whatever I do, so they can be taught the beautiful Christmas Story

  64. Sara says

    I am moving closer to my parents and would like to spend more time sharing God’s love with my mother.

  66. Summer says

    We’ll be “adopting” a family for Christmas and giving them Christmas dinner and some presents!

  71. erin says

    We always donate to a charity during the Christmas season. I’m encouraging my kids to go through their toys and donate as many as they canh bear to part with to Goodwill. And our family is always involved in our church choir and singing specials during the holidays.

  72. Andrea says

    I will be teaching the children in my sunday school class the true meaning of christmas! We as a sunday school class are making items to give toward an auction to help raise funds for a little boy in our church who has cancer. We need to fill the little ones heart with the true meaning of christmas and slowly bring the word back to it’s old self… thank you for your site!

  77. Laura says

    My Family and I have been through some tough times this past year and God has been faithful to bring us through them:-) It really touched us when somebody would reach out to us and let us know they were there. So my 3yr old boys and i like to bake cookies and reach out to our neighbors..we make up a plate and then my husband hand delivers them:-)

  78. Karina House says

    Advent is my favorite season. This year I’ve been working very hard to pare our schedule back during Advent, purposefully avoiding all extra commitments like bringing a dish to my MOPS group or locking up the building for our Co-op. I want to be able to focus on preparing for Christmas with my children. We’ll be baking and crafting and giving as much as we can!

  80. nikki wilson says

    I am leading a Girl Scout troop and we are going to sponsor my neighbor. Shhhhhh because they don’t know. It is going to be more of a secredt Santa type thing. My neighbor is 40 and has very aggressive cancer at home with Hospice so this may be his last year with his family. He has 6 kids,(1 adopted, and 4 from his first marriage and 1 with his second wife). Anyway, he has not been able to work for a long time and he still has joint custody of his children so they are there quite often. His second wife does not make a lot of money. She works as much OT as she can to pay the bills, but does not qulaify for assistance and the father does not get dissability at this time. We are going to gather all of the fixings for a complete holiday meal, get a gift card for pizza and gift cards for each of the kids so that the Dad has something to give them this year. This is a BIG deal for our troop since there are only six kids in it and our funds are pretty low. However, I think we can come up with a great gift basket to deliver by Santa.

  82. says

    We have already done some Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes. I also plan to do a nightly Advent devotion with my children, as we’ve never done that before, some of which will involve doing things for others. I want to make sure my own family is focusing on Christ, too!
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  86. says

    I grew up in Nigeria and have a real heart for the children my parents work with. This year, instead of our rather large family getting everyone gifts, we are drawing names for one gift and using all the rest of the money we would have used to help the children.

  87. Casey says

    I am planning on inviting someone to our holiday gatherings that broke apart my son’s family four years ago. Granted, my son was just as much a part of the affair, that led to divorce, but I have found it difficult to forgive this person for her pursuit of him. I have two grandchildren with a broken home as a result. I’m praying that God continues to guide me on this step of forgiveness, as He has forgiven me of so many sins. My son plans to make a life with her, so I am feeling God is pushing me in this direction. I would love to have prayers from everyone for God to lead me and have me do what He wishes.
    Thank you so much for asking this question and making me put into words what is stirring in my heart.

  89. kris says

    I’m hoping to instill God’s love more in my children and serving our Lord more this holiday season!!

  90. Jackie says

    Every year we show the love of Christ to people and especially our 2 young sons by adopting a family for thanksgiving and christmas. We try to make difference one family at a time and show our kids the importance of reaching out to those who need help.

  91. Tanya says

    We are fortunate to have my BIL & family move back to the area after 10 years. This will be our 1st Christmas together since then. Looking forward to just being with family.
    I am a Sunday school teacher & each year my class adopts a family to buy gifts for but instead of having them just bring something I take the kids shopping as a group so we can also talk about why we are doing this. We then bring the items back to the church where the kids share with the congregation about it.

  101. Antoinette says

    Every year, we sponsor an individual or family through our church; we also spend time visiting neighbors and bringing goodies. The most important change to our Christmas came last year when we started a Reminder of Christ gift. The budget is very small and each member of the family gets a personalized reminder. It is the last present we open. Last year it was a small picture of Christ (tailored for the individual and their current challenges or gifts) with a handwritten testimony on the back of the picture frame.

  104. melody says

    We are hosting a Christmas Dinner at our church for the the homeless people in our community. I can’t wait to bless them!

  107. Mary says

    I want to have the least amount of stress in the household as possible. Instead, I want the focus to be on Jesus.

  108. Heather H says

    We Keep Christ in our focus this Christmas season as we celebrate Christ’s birth. Our kids are reminded of this as we display our nativity scene and attend church throughout advent!

  110. Lissette Romero says

    This year I am coordinating a toy donation to our childrens sheleter on behalf of our kids from our Womens Bible study group.

  113. Melissa says

    I look for ways to show God’s love through kind acts to strangers during the season leading up to our celebration of Christ’s birth. (It seems like it is so hectic and people can feel neglected or chaotic.)

  115. Julie says

    I plan to donate food and toiletries to various organizations and also put tracts in some of the Christmas cards I’m mailing out.

  116. Rebecca says

    I am planning to get my two year old to “help” me bake some cookies for some neighbors and friends. My husband doesn’t have a full-time job so we can’t do much for our friends, but I think it is important to allow my child to help do things for others, even if it just means dumping ingredients into a bowl!

  125. Debbi says

    We always do Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes which helps my children really focus on those who don’t have much. God has blessed us with so much, and I want my kids (and me, too!) to be thankful and generous!

  126. Lindsay says

    Last year I helped my kids make Christmas ornaments for the local nursing home residents and then we went to visit them. They loved seeing the kids! I hope to do it again this year.

  129. Tricia says

    We will invite my husband’s family to church with us and share the real meaning of the season with them.

  132. Linda from Georgia says

    We gather things for Christmas Child boxes all year. Our big project is love gifts for seniors and those in nursing homes.

  142. Laura says

    We always buy toys for kids in our community. This year our church is having an evening with Santa event for the kids and we will bring toys to give to kids at the childrens home our church supports.

  146. julianne says

    For the first time I am in a public school setting and plan on spreading God’s word and love this holiday season by sharing my beliefs and practices about the holiday and why they are so important to me!

  153. Sharonna M. says

    We do several outreaches with our church over the Christmas season. Christmas caroling to the shut-ins is just one of the ways.

  156. says

    We will adopt an angel from the angel tree (either at work or at the mall). I also plan on starting a tradition of a gift for each child from Samaritan’s Purse gift catalog (or another similar organization). As my daughter gets older, I will have her help us choose what she wants to give to. I also have some Nativity projects to do for her and plan on doing a Jesse tree with her when she’s a little bit older.
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  158. Jen says

    This year I want to start teaching my almost two year old the real meaning of Christmas. We have a nativity advent calendar that we will do each day and I will also read her lots of picture books about Jesus’ birth.

  160. Sarah M. says

    This year, we are sharing Christ’s love through several charity groups that our church is raising money/donating to.

  165. says

    So many ways. I send out CHRISTmas cards, making sure there are verses on them and that I pray for each recipient and for everyone who sends us one as well!
    angel´s last blog post ..Confessing

  167. Rachel H. says

    I normally host the Christmas festivities in our home for our extended family on Christmas Day, however, my grandparents (which are Jewish) will be with us this year. They are now too frail to travel this holiday season. I use my life as a testimony to them. They have asked us not to try to convert them, but we continue to tell them how God is working in our lives. What better way to share Christ’s love than to make them feel at home during a rough time.

  173. Mindi says

    I think my son is finally getting to an age that he can start to really understand what Christmas is all about. I am hoping to share my heart and God’s love through this new understanding he will have as to why we celebrate!

  176. Kori Kauffman says

    WOW! The Christmas Tree to Cross collection is beautiful!! What an awesome reminder of the true meaning of CHRISTmas!!!

  179. Kari says

    I have already helped stuff shoe boxes with a group of ladies, mainly from church, to send to some missionaries in Mexico. I try to watch for ways to help spread the holiday cheer by offering a smile or kind word in the least, since money is kind of tight right now.

  183. Jessica B says

    My girls are 3 & 5, so we focus on Jesus with a lot of books and videos, a Dayspring advent box of drawers, Operation Christmas Child, and Angel Tree.

  184. Kimberly W says

    Our family loves to participate in Operation Christmas Child. Each of my children prepare a box for a child their own age. It is so good to know that the Gospel shared along with the gifts that we lovingly selected. We hope that this small thing will bring joy to these children and possibly change a life or two this Christmas.

  190. Cindy says

    I plan to invite some friends that are not Christ followers to church. I also plan to continue the 30 days of giving into December.

  193. says

    We have participated in operation Christmas Child in the past – i think we will do it again this year. i hope to teach my children more and more about the true meaning of Christmas and giving to others this year!

  196. Tracie says

    with my 4 year old twin boys……..they are understanding more and more each day God’s amazing love.

  197. Christina S. says

    We are planning on giving as much and as often as we can. It will vary from financial, volunteering and helping others throughout this busy time.

  201. Nancy says

    Each year we try to give to the less fortunate, whether it’s thru a food pantry @ church or a toy drive.

  203. Marla Y says

    For starters, my family are finishing up some Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes this week. My husband and I started the last couple of years of opening our home and hearts to some of the people in our community that have no family close by. We invite them to dinner and spend time and money just loving them and sharing Christ with them.

    koinonia572001@yahoo.com

  206. Melissa says

    We made boxes for Operation Christmas Child this year. I even presented the program to our PTA and our school voted to do it as a project instead of our usual Santa Secret Shop. The students loved it and we just gave Samaritan’s Purse 36 boxes for children in need.

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  219. Jennifer M. says

    As an elementary teacher in a Christian school, I have the privilege of sharing God’s love daily. So this Christmas will be no different!! I will also share the message through the Christmas cards I send to unsaved family members — guiding their thoughts to the truth.

  221. Christine says

    I am so thankful that my step-father is here to celebrate another Thanksgiving. We almost lost him three times in October, but the Lord granted him healing. It is truly a miracle.

    I love your posts and follow you on Facebook.

  222. grace says

    I would love to start a christmas tradition this year now that my son is finally getting to an age that he can start to really understand what Christmas is all about. I am hoping we can share our heart and God’s love through this and the reason why we celebrate! It’s not always about the presents 🙂

  223. says

    Oooh, I love that tree-to-a-cross pic! That actually is one way I’m going to share Christmas w/my kids. I’m thinking up some fun stuff for advent—and each week we’re going to take a traditional Christmas item and talk about (or make up) a fun Christ-centered meaning for it!

  226. Suzanne Brown says

    We have adopted two soldiers and a local family for Christmas this year at work. Giving is so much fun!

  234. Lindsey W. says

    Making sure we’re teaching our children that Jesus is the only reason we celebrate Christmas. Teaching them to love and give to others because Christ has loved and given us so many things.

    llwoolard [at] gmail [dot] com

  236. Denise Y says

    I am going to plan an active Christmas giving time for my Sunday School kids to give out Christmas love.

  240. Cindy says

    I purchased a book that has a story for every night from Dec 1 – Christmas we will be using as bed time stories ans I have a weekly family night planned for each week in advent

  244. Sam in AZ says

    Last year 2009 Thanksgiving and Christmas my family was on the receiving end from our Church, our district food bank, the Rural Fire Department and another family. Our kids were totally thankful for what they received last year.
    This year we are doing better and have been giving every chance we get, thanks to coupons. We are providing a food basket, toiletries/hygiene items and toys to help out others this year.

  245. Julie McNally says

    I really want to teach and encourage my children about giving. I am hoping to have my oldest who is 5 to help with our local food bank and we will be shopping for a child close to her age who is in need.
    I am also following Daysrping on Twitter.

  249. Lisa H says

    How are you planning to share your heart and God’s love this holiday season?

    I will plan to give to my church and use creative ways to serve God. For example, I will lead others to create teachers’ appreciation gifts with the coupon freebies and inexpensive items. They give care and volunteer to serve the children who are so precious. The teachers don’t expect anything in return, even when asked. As the attending children grow in number, the church grows in faith. I will also plan to participate in visiting a convalescent home and sing Christmas carols to encourage the elderly. As I bless others, I actually feel more blessed. Truly Christmas is a time to give.

  250. Jan Kerbo says

    I open my home for a holiday celebration with people that have no family near so that we can become each other’s family.

  251. Alison says

    This year, I will be starting my third surrogacy journey in helping another couple become parents. I will also help my children find 1-2 children from the angel tree at the mall and we will be gifting them instead of buying gifts for one another. 😉

  252. Kaia says

    I was planning on doing Operation Shoebox this year but didn’t get started early enough. Instead I will be trying my very hardest to put something in every single one of those red kettles I pass this year!

  253. Brittany C says

    Since my daughter is going to understand Christmas this year -We want to help her fully understand it’s true meaning. We plan on making a cake for Jesus’ birthday and doing other birthday decorating for Jesus!

  256. Jennifer Short says

    I’m hoping to help with my church’s Christmas Giving Day where people can come “shop” for free.

  260. Jacqueline says

    We will have a family over who is struggling financially and just open our home to them. I subscribe to email updates.

  265. Lawanna Horton says

    I plan on helping someone I know this Christmas by sending her a gift card for her children so she can buy them a present. She is going through a difficult time both physically and finacially.

  268. zalyndia says

    we will participate by volunteering at salvation army, making samaritan purse boxes, angel tree at church…these are just a few of our usual traditions.

  269. Joyanne says

    This year the church we attend is involved in Giving Gifts that Matter. Instead of giving an expensive gift to a loved one, we are being encouraged to choose a program through Lord’s Harvest International to give a monetary gift to in honor of our loved one. We are choosing to give 10 pairs of eye glasses at $1.50 each pair to children in Africa and purchasing cement blocks for $30 to help rebuild a school/church outreach in Haiti in lieu of traditional gifts for family members. We are also giving gifts & food basket items to a family in need through our church and community outreach program. I love Dayspring products & often send e-cards to lvoed ones as quick pick-me-ups.

    I follow Kingdom First on facebook and via e-mail. Thanks for this opportunity to share with others.

  270. Joyanne says

    I just liked Dayspring on Facebook as well. I sent some Thansgiving greetings to my facebook buddies too. 🙂

  271. Sharon says

    I would like to help out at the Childrens Hospital here. I am not sure if i want to cook or donate toys.

  274. Bonnie says

    Our church is participating in a Christmas fund raiser for a Community Pregnancy Center….our city’s pro-life clinic. I’m excited!

  276. Karla says

    I helped w/ a dinner for the homeless that my church did yesterday, and I want to continue sharing God’s love!

  281. says

    Ohhhh! I love that! And you just gave me a really good idea… =) We always try to pepper everything– from decorations to movies to books to activities to giving — with truth and purpose. I’m really pleased with Dayspring, I love their stuff, their message. =)

  282. Christie says

    A friend at work just lost her day 2 weeks ago. I don’t know exactly what I’m going to do, but I plan on loving on her and her family this December.

  293. Tara says

    I’m planning to share my heart for the orphan on my blog, and to participate in Angel Tree and the Pajama Program.

  294. Amber says

    we always go through the kids toys and have them help us to donate to kids that need stuff and how important it is to be caring

  297. Peggy says

    I am trying to be intentional to show gratitude to those who go unrecognized in my church and community whether by notes or by notes and goodies…

  298. Priscilla says

    We have invited my sister-in-law and her live-in boyfriend for Christmas. We plan to show her the Lord’s love…she’s had a hard year. She needs lots of love and hugs! Well, we all do. 🙂

  304. Tracie M says

    I plan on going to the nursing home and visiting people there; handing out christmas cards with scripture and singing.

  305. says

    I try to find someone who’s having a difficult time and help them out either by finding some gifts appropriate for their children, with food, or a gift card.

  308. Melissa P. @Mel4Him says

    We love to celebrate the birth of Christ. Usually someone in the family will bake a cake and we put in candles and everything. The kids love it and I think it helps them to remember the true reason for the season.

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