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 Free Advent Calendars
In 2007 and 2008 the Christian Fellowship at Mott MacDonald in Cambridge have given a chocolate advent calendar and a card, with a list of local carol services on it, to every bay in our office - 150 calendars in total! We managed to find some Fairtrade chocolate advent calendars with the nativity story behind each door.
We wanted to demonstrate God's generosity to us by doing something nice for people! One of us on each floor was responsible for distributing the calendars, so that we could give them to people personally. It is lots of fun giving people something for free especially when it involves chocolate and we have enjoyed seeing people searching for the right door to open, reading the next stage in the nativity story and then enjoying the chocolates.
It's a wonderful, if a little strange, thing to hear your colleagues daily reading the nativity story!
 We have had some great responses:
"What a great idea (these advent calendars) - I really do want to get to
a Christmas carol service this year, I haven't been to one for ages."
"I am already planning to go to the carol service in my village - good
to see listed here what is going on in the city."
"If you are singing in the City Church Carol service, maybe that's one I
will avoid!"
"I'll try to come to your carol service on 21st December - where is it
exactly?" (detailed map was provided)
"Oh, I didn't know you were a Christian, you have completely blown all my stereotypes out of the water!" |
Motts in Cambs, 09/12/2008 |
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| | | Sue Glendinning (Guest) | 25/01/2011 00:12 | This is a brilliant idea and I really want to contact you to find out where you found the calendars as we want to buy them too. Were they expensive etc?
Can you contact me please?
| | | | Karen Hill (Guest) | 27/04/2011 16:02 | Hi Sue, we bought them from Ethical Superstore (.com). They sell them in bulk in boxes of 25 (I think). I think the costs were about £2.50 each, so we decided to give each 'bay' of 4 people one between them, as we have 500 in the office. This meant the managers and reception staff had their own ones, as they were in offices of their own, but it also meant that we had some left over for the cleaners too!
It cost a bit, but even with a small group of about a dozen Christians, we managed to raise enough between us to pay for it.
Hope that helps.
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