The Advance: Alternative Gift Ideas

Alternative Giving

Alternative Giving through The Advance is really two gifts in one: a gift to the people it helps and to the person it honors. 100 % of your gift reaches its intended mission and ministry.

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Community Based Rehabilitation, Faryab Province, Afghanistan

Community Based Rehabilitation in Faryab Province

$11 helps train a woman to be a midwife, thereby reducing the high rate of childbirth-related disability and death.

Donate now to #00545A

Baltic Methodist Theological Seminary, Estonia

$12 can provide a library book to educate young church leaders from Russia and Eastern Europe.

Donate now to #15021B

Ministry With Children, Shade and Fresh Water, Brazil

$20 can offer tutoring and Christian education to at-risk children

Donate now to #11580A

Renovation of Betty Carew Women's Training Center, Sierra Leone

$45 can purchase a bed for a woman living in extreme poverty.

Donate now to #137380

Feed My Starving Children

$55 15 cents can provide a meal to a child. $55 can give a child a meal every day for a year.

Donate now to #171282

Amigos Del Valle, New Mexico, United States

$60 can give an older adult home assistance care for a year.

Donate now to #581540

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Alternative Giving

Give a donation in someone's honor rather than a physical gift. Alternative giving to a ministry, project, or missionary through The Advance works for all occasions, from Christmas and birthdays to anniversaries and retirements.

How to Give

Steps to Giving

1. Choose a project in honor of your friend:

Find a project and give online, or
Give by check or phone at 888-252-6174

2. Send a gift card to your friend:

Order gift cards at 888-364-3862 or online.
Download a gift card during the online giving process, print, and mail it.

The alternative giving flyer is a print-friendly PDF of the gift ideas featured on this page.

PDF Files: How to read and print

To read and print PDF files, you must get the free Adobe ® Reader and install it on your computer.

Download help: If a PDF file is not loading correctly, try this: right-click on the link (with Macintosh, hold "Control" and click); from the pop-up menu, select "save target as," "save object as," or "save link as"; download ("save") it to your computer.