It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

…and to help us get into the Christmas spirit, we’re hosting our second annual Christmas Blog Tour here at Wives of Faith! If you’re a blogger, you’ll want to participate in this fun countdown to Christmas for military wives!

Starting Dec. 6, we will post a new Christmas topic each day through Dec. 12. There are just two basic rules to participate:

Rule #1: Write a blog that goes along with our Christmas topic for the day and comment under that specific day’s topic with a link back to your own blog post.

Rule #2: Include a link to Wives of Faith in your blog post.

Write every day for 7 days, or pick and choose any days you like, but each time you comment on the Wives of Faith site during our CHRISTMAS BLOG CARNIVAL, you’ll be entered to win in our daily drawing for some really great gifts! And we’ll be giving away something every day for those 7 days so the more you participate, the greater chance you have of winning something!

Be sure to add our blog carnival button! You can get the code on this post here.

Prizes:

Day 1 – Rick Renner Ministries Pack: Dressed to Kill by Rick Renner, Sparkling Gems electronic Greek e-book reference; Prayers that Avail Much by Germaine Copeland, and Redeemed from Shame by Denise Renner.

Day 2 – Paperback giveaway pack: Fruit Happens by Michael Christopher, Karla Faye Tucker Set Free by Linda Strom, and Finding Hope Beyond the Battle: A Bib le for Military Families (NIV).

Day 3 – Tour of Duty: Preparing Our Hearts for Deployment, a Bible study by Sara Horn, and The Power of a Praying Wife (Military Edition) by Stormie Omartian.

Day 4 – Beth Moore Loving Well retreat in box from LifeWay Women

Day 5 – Battlefields & Blessings by Jane Hamptom Cook, Jocelyn Green and John Croushorn.

Day 6 – Me, Myself and Lies study kit by Jennifer Rothschild from LifeWay Women.

Day 7 – Tour of Duty: Preparing Our Hearts for Deployment, a Bible study by Sara Horn and ONE FREE REGISTRATION to the Wives of Faith “Come as You Are” Weekend Retreat September 23-24, 2011 in Nashville, TN (does not include travel or hotel costs) ($125 value).

Additional prizes each day: Kathleen Cline donated seven copies of her book I Want to be the Fat Pretty One: Reflecting God’s Esteem, one copy will be given away each day . Kathleen also donated five copies of her book God Plus Military Spouse, which will be given away on the last day.

Kathleen is  a Navy spouse and has a website called God Plus Military Spouse.

Topics:
For those who like to plan ahead, we are offering the topics in advance!

Dec. 6: Your favorite Christmas tree ornament or Christmas decoration (include a picture too for an extra drawing entry!)

Dec. 7:  Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without ______ . (This is taken from the first line of Little Women, “‘Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,’ grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.”)

Dec. 8: The Worst Christmas Song Ever (but you must mention one redeeming quality of the song, too!)

Dec. 9: Write your own “Grown-Up Christmas List” (taken from Amy Grant’s song of the same title)

Dec. 10: What Christmas means to me.

Dec. 11: You might be a military spouse at Christmas if . . .

Dec. 12: How does your faith refresh at Christmastime?

Blogging FAQs:

If you are new to blogging, you can create a new blog of your very own! Some free blog hosting sites are:

www.blogger.com
www.wordpress.com
www.xanga.com
www.livejournal.com
www.blog.com

When you post your response in the comments each day, please post the distinct URL for your post for that day, rather than the general link to your blog itself. For example, instead of posting www.wivesoffaith.org each time, you would post http://www.wivesoffaith.org/2010-christmas-blog-carnival which links directly to that particular post.

Please let us know if you have any questions, and happy writing–and a very Merry Christmas!

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