Our Season of Service

Inspired by some friends of our family, the Tucker family has decided to try a new way of exchanging Christmas gifts beginning in 2013. We hope it will become a wonderful family tradition. For years, the six Tucker children, their spouses, and their parents exchanged gifts every Christmas, but in 2012, 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.

Names were drawn for us and and we were notified 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 Tucker 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.

Sunday, December 25, 2016

To Scott from Gary

This year, my service was for Scott.  This was quite fortuitous since he and I are both Orthodontists and I know he has similar concerns regarding people's oral health.  We also fondly remember our vacation with them to Costa Rica and the kind people of that country.

Throughout this last year we were able to buy and distribute hundreds or tooth brushes in our local area to children and families that were less fortunate, as well as have hundreds more sent down to Costa Rica with a family doing missionary work in that part of the world.

It was truly a gift being able to make a positive impact in many peoples lives this year, and I want to thank Scott for inspiring this service.

Love,
Gary

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Location: North Carolina, USA

1 comment:

  1. GinaDecember 25, 2016 at 10:28 AM

    How thoughtful! Some people think that oral health is no big deal and take it for granted. It's not until it's lost that some realize what a blessing it is. I love this!

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