Running aluminum foil through the paper shredder to make tinsel is discourage. Playing Jingle Bells on the push-button phone is forbidden (it runs up an incredible long distance bill). Work requests are not to be filed under Bah humbug. 1
Company cars are not to be used to go over the river and through the woods to Grandma s house. All fruitcake is to be eaten BEFORE July 25. Egg nog will NOT be dispensed in vending machines. In spite of this, the staff is encouraged to have a happy holiday. Serving others in need 2
Serving others in need Expressing faith Serving others in need Expressing faith Making money Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. 3
A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas. Charles Dickens I will live in the past, the present, and the future! Generosity It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 20:35 Integrity Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out. Prov. 10:9 Flexibility Blessed are the flexible for they rarely get bent out of shape. Flexibility Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another. Romans 12:10 4
! Testimony You must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your Christian hope, always be ready to explain it. 1 Peter 3:15 Sensitivity 3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Sensitivity 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus.! Philippians 2:3-5 Generosity! ntegrity! I! lexibility! F! estimony! T ensitivity! S 8 Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. 10 Then the angel said to them,! Do not be afraid, for behold,! I bring you good tidings of great! joy which will be to all people.! 11 For there is born to you this day! in the city of David a Savior,! who is Christ the Lord. 5
12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger. 13 And suddenly there! was with the angel a multitude! of the heavenly host praising! God and saying: 14 Glory to God in the highest,! and on earth peace,! goodwill toward men!!! Luke 2:8-14 6