Christmas Gift to Christ
There are approximately 130 million households in the US.
According to the Barna Group only about 6 percent of the country actually hold a Christian worldview which would be about 8 million (130 x .06).
If those with a real Christian worldview would be willing to give to Christ (the least of these) during the Christmas season rather than all the family members who really don’t need anything in comparison, what could be given to Christ?
The BGEA (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association) expenses for 2024 were about $160 million.
Operation Christmas Child (a part of Samaritan’s Purse) expenses for 2024 were about $460 million.
So the total expenses for both ministries (BGEA and Op Christmas Child) was about $620 million (160 + 460).
If that same group of households gave only $80 per household ($620 million/8 million = about $80), then all of those two ministries’ expenses would be paid.
$30 is the suggested donation to create an online shoebox for Operation Christmas Child.
The average Christmas gift spending per household is supposedly around $1,000.
If that same group gave $1000 per household to Operation Christmas Child, instead of all those family members who comparatively don’t need anything, they could provide 267 million (8 million x $1000 / $30) online shoeboxes, which would be enough to give a box to all of the grade school age children in Europe and Latin America combined!
The cost to build a 1500 square foot home for someone who could really use it, i.e. a single mom, is somewhere in the neighborhood of $300,000.
If those same real/worldview Christians wanted to instead build homes for single moms in need, they could build a little over 26,000 (8 million x 1000/300,000) homes, instead of again giving it to all the unneedy family members!
If you want to give to your kids, great. That’s what their birthday is for.
Oh, and by the way, there are probably a lot of people who want to have nothing to do with Christianity who would be willing to give like that. Will it get them into heaven? No, but it might actually put a smile on God’s face.
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