Our Season of Service

Inspired by some friends of our family, the Marshall family has decided to try a new way of exchanging Christmas gifts in 2012. We hope it will become a wonderful family tradition.
For years, the four Marshall children, their spouses, and their parents exchanged gifts every Christmas, but in 2011, we decided the gift-giving tradition may need a change since we are all so blessed and in need of truly nothing. We decided we needed to find a better way to celebrate the true Christmas spirit.

We suggested that we each perform acts of service in the name of the sibling whose name we were assigned at random. Our service will be kept a secret until Christmas Day.

Our friend drew the names for us and notified each of us privately of the person who should inspire our service. On Christmas Day, we reveal who we were given and how we chose to serve by posting our stories on The Marshall Family Season of Service blog.

We hope this tradition will help us focus on serving our communities and each other during the annual celebration of the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

We invite you to come back to our blog on Christmas morning to read this year's service.

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

2017 Owen Christmas Service

Ok. Sorry for being late, but better late than never.  This year I have probably watched more YOUTUBE than I should have, but several of the creators I follow got involved with in helping others this year so I joined in to help.  The first was Casey Neistat joined with a friend of his to help out the drought victims in Samolia.  Through YOUTUBE they were able to garner $2.7 million which was then used to buy food and water for the people in need.

Then another creator named Matt Caraker has a couple channels called “Vet Ranch” & “Demolition Ranch”.  Vet Ranch is funded by an organization called the abandoned pet project and they do very costly surgery’s on animals who would not otherwise get any help.  For this cause i purchased a T-shirt in which part of the proceeds goes to the abandoned pet project.

Lastly Demolition Ranch helped out another fellow YOUTUBER whom was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer.  They sold T-shirts who’s proceeds went directly to the family in need.  Below are the pictures of the items.





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