7th Day of Christmas Giveaway…..with Sharon Glasgow
Happy Sunday and welcome to the 7th Day of Christmas Giveaway. If you are just joining us in our 12 Days of interviews and goodies, click here to get caught up. You can enter to win the prizes on any of the 12 posts until midnight EST on Sunday, December 13th.
Today’s Proverbs 31 featured speaker is Sharon Glasgow. If you’ve ever longed for a spiritually in-tune friend, one who listens to God, knows His word and understands how to apply it to everyday life issues and difficult situations, then you will LOVE sweet Sharon. Her spiritual roots run deep and she is undoubtedly one of the most mature Christians I know— Don’t let the “she-is-so-pretty-and-looks-more-like-a-sixth-sister-than-a-daughter-in-that-photo” image on the P31 magazine cover below fool you! She looks like a teen, but is wise beyond her years. Today, take a few minutes to meet my P31 sister Sharon, in her own words:
Hi! I’m Sharon Glasgow. I live on a farm in Fredericksburg, Virginia with my husband and best friend Dale and our youngest daughter Elizabeth who is 14 years old. We have 5 daughters in all, Heather the oldest (26) is married to Jeff, they live in VA, Jennifer(25) works and lives in LA, CA, Hannah (21) and Rachael (19) are attending Virginia Commonwealth University.
We have owned our own business our entire marriage. Dale is a full time artist, and is able to work from home while I work along side of him writing and preparing messages to speak across the nation. Our daughters have followed in our footsteps, they are all artists and ministering.
Christmas is our favorite time of year, when we’re all together. We’re always huddled close to the fireplace and sharing what God is doing, giving spiritual insights and encouraging each other in the Word.
If you would like to connect with me, please visit my website @ www.sharonglasgow.com. I don’t have Facebook yet, but our daughters made me a fan page, www.facebook.com/pages/Sharon-Glasgow/89772909801. I pray you have a Merry Christmas!
Now, for our get-to-know-you interview:
Sharon, can you share a Christmas tradition your family has done over the years that stands out to you?
Christmas is a very hard holiday for many people who are suffering. I’ll never forget my first Christmas without my dad. I wondered if anyone really understood how bad my heart hurt that holiday. The next Christmas I decided that from then on our family would start a tradition to minister to hurting families on Christmas Eve.
That year we knew of two families who had lost loved ones, a family who had undergone financial devastation and a lonely old man down the road. These would be our Christmas Eve targets. We made gingerbread houses and hot crab dip to deliver to them. We made everything look as festive as possible and then loaded the family and presents into the vehicle and started out on our Christmas Eve journey.
As each door opened you knew immediately you were where you belonged. One was drinking their sorrow away and cried when we gave the presents and offered to pray. The next didn’t have a tree up or anything cooked for Christmas, the hot crab dip would be their dinner. We finished our trip, I wish I could say the kids enjoyed it, but they didn’t! Instead they said, “This is the most depressing Christmas Eve ever, do we have to do it next year?” However, we kept our tradition going.
Today as our children look back over all the holidays they may not remember what presents they got or how beautiful the tree was but they’ll always remember the faces of those people who were ministered to on Christmas Eve.
What are some of your favorite Christmastime foods? Any recipe you might share with us?
This is a recipe we have made for our Christmas Eve deliveries. The dish is a gift so look for deals throughout the year. We deliver the dish and baguette slices in a basket.
Crab Dip with Baguette Slices
- 1 pound jumbo lump crabmeat, free of shells
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1 cup grated Parmesan
- 1/4 cup green onions, minced, optional
- 5 to 6 roasted garlic cloves or 2 cloves minced
- 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon
- 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
- Salt and pepper to taste
Directions: Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Combine all of the ingredients, stir and pour into a small casserole dish. Bake for 40 minutes. Serve hot with crackers or thin baguette slices toasted with a spray of oil on top.
You are offering a great giveaway today to one of our cyber sisters. Can you tell us about it?
Sure! For my prize, I am giving away a $15 Target Gift Card. Suggested use: Small baking dishes for your hot dip of choice to be delivered on Christmas Eve!
Thanks for sharing this great idea and family tradition with us, Sharon!
Sharon’s idea gives me and idea for your comment today. If you’d like to be entered to win her target card giveaway, leave a comment describing someone you feel God might want you to bless this Christmas and why. You may just win that gift card and then you can use part of it for a gift for that person (and save a little for yourself too!)
CHRISTmas Blessings,
I have had an extremely hard year…which makes me so thankful that in October I found out about the Prov 31 minstries..it has been so encouraging to say the least. Anyway, my goal this year..and I’m having to work extra hard at it…is to just bless my husband and my kids…to make the holidays special for them.
I think those blessings (to give) pop up in unexpected places. God showed me a man who needed a small gift yesterday — it’s a private gesture between me and the Boss — but it was evident that God had this man on his heart this season. I love moments like that.
I’m in. I think God would like me to help my mother-in-law. I won’t see her much and I have had major issues with her in the past (praise God he has transformed that area), but I think I should do more.
I’m in…I try to help out us much as I can to make sure that needy children all have a gift….this year I can not do that due to falling on hard times…but I will do it again next year
Terry
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I have a couple of friends I hope to bless in special ways this Christmas.
We like to bless the children’s schoolteachers over Christmas.
I’m in
I just want to say that I am sooooo touched and moved by Sharon’s family’s ministry!
I’m in
My grandfather passed away over the weekend, and my grandmother is having a very difficult time. I want to help her in any way I can, and somehow still make Christmas a joyful experience. Thanks for the giveaway, hope to win :)
Our children are 4 and 2 this year, and as a family we’ve been talking a lot during our Advent devotions about how we can share Jesus with other people this Christmas. We haven’t really picked out any one particular person – we’re pretty isolated right now as we’re searching for a church and our children stay home with me – but the kids and I shopped for an Operation Christmas Child shoebox and we spent one evening making cards as a family to give away next week when we visit a nursing home.
My life group is reaching out the the homeless, hurting and forgotten people and I am so very glad to be apart of such generous loving women. We started a couple of years ago preparing meals on the 3rd Monday of each month in a homeless shelter way in the not so good part of town and now they all know us. that year we also started a Christmas party, and now many others contribute gifts for us to take, and they get to be apart as well. We usually serve over 100 so it is nice to have people praying as well. So many ways to share your gifts.
I feel a strong calling to help the homeless this year. I think there are more people needing help than ever.
Our Ladies Bible study is reaching out in a different way, by each selecting a needy child in our area and purchasing gifts for them. We have just been studying Acts and the importance of encouraging and helping each other.
I’m in.
I’m In!
I just sent a package to my brother in law, stationed in Iraq, filled with some comfort goodies from home. I will also think of something special to do for my sister and neices and nephew during this time…it’s hard on the families and especially small children to not have daddy home for Christmas! Thanks for the devotions, Karen!
I’m in
I would like to be a blessing to my aunt who is going through a hard time this year.
I’m in. Will pray about who I can minister to this season.
A young girl in my church who always helps out me and my husband with our babies. She is truly a blessing–and I would love to bless her in return!
Prayers and blessings,
Rebecca
My dear friend, Joy, has been on my heart. Her husband is recently unemployed and they were not able to pay their rent so they were living out of their car. The Lord allowed me to bless them by pointing them in the direction of a house they could afford. They now have shelter but are still struggling financially.
Also, my dear friends Gene and June. June was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. Gene is unemployed so they are relying on June’s income to pay their bills. With her in the hospital fighting cancer things are questionable about their well being.
We have a family in our church that is going through an extremely hard time this year…I would like to reach out to them this yera.
I’m in!!
I keep praying that our family is able to bless another family that is in need. I keep waiting for God to place the specific family in my heart and mind or on my path of life. I think this is such an important thing to teach your children during Christmas.