Contact: Diane Morrow 1-800-927-0517 dmorrow@tbbmedia.com Visit our website at www.tbbmedia.com Redeeming the Season Simple Ideas for a Memorable and Meaningful Christmas

DALLAS/FORT WORTH, TX—Redeeming the Season, published by Tyndale House Publishers, offers refreshing ways to reclaim the spiritual significance of Christmas. Co-authored by Kim Wier and Pam McCune, two mothers who were searching to bring more meaning to their own family celebrations, this book offers hilarious and heartwarming family stories and ideas that are simple, original, and realistic. Readers are encouraged to minimize the stress and busyness of the Christmas season by making family relationships a priority, sharing the joy with others, and giving worship to the greatest Gift of all.

Redeeming the Season gives parents insights and suggestions in three main categories: The first, Sanctify Your Family, encourages you to create opportunities to pull your family aside from the hustle and bustle and build memories while you build your relationships. One of the many ideas the authors’ offer is ornament night: As a family, spend the evening at a local store allowing each family member to choose an ornament for the tree. Lengthen your family time by starting out with dinner at a favorite restaurant or hot chocolate at an area coffeehouse. Season Your Surroundings, the second category, gives simple and gratifying ways to teach your children that Christmas is a season to reach out to others with the good news of Christ. Wrap-It-Up night encourages families to reach out to the elderly and neighbors. As a family, help decorate their home for the holidays by hanging exterior lights, putting up the tree, wrapping gifts or baking goodies. Bring along the music and hot chocolate to make it a festive evening for everyone. Savor Your Savior, the third category, gives meaningful ways to help your family focus on the gift of Christ by worshiping Him. Prophecy Boxes is an idea that offers parents a unique and fun way to teach biblical principles during the Christmas season. Moms or dads can help the kids color, wrap or spray-paint 25 different-sized boxes. Each box is then filled with a verse from the Old Testament and New Testament, which illustrates that only Jesus fulfilled all the prophecies of the coming Messiah as foretold in the Old Testament.

Kim Wier and Pam McCune’s own easy-to-use ideas and family stories will inspire you to examine your traditions and help make Christmas more memorable and meaningful. The authors can be contacted for speaking or for other information through their ministry, Engaging Women, at www.engagingwomen.com.