YWAM Knoxville Stockings of Love
How it Works
Volunteers buy an 18" standard stocking and fill it with age appropriate toys, candy and fun things. Then they add age and gender appropriate underwear, socks, mittens and caps. They top off the stocking with fun shampoo and body wash, as well as a toothbrush and toothpaste! A child Bible or Bible storybook is always wonderful also!
These are all things many children in these areas need!
Buying any other gifts that don't fit in the stockings is ok also, as we supply large bags for extra items.
We then deliver these stockings to the parents or guardians of the children for them to give on Christmas morning. For some of these kids, unfortunately, these may be the only presents they receive.
With every stocking goes the prayers of wonderful people like you, and we know they will have lasting value and will reap eternal rewards!
How You Can Bring Jesus into a Child's Home this Christmas
Please sign up to be a part of this wonderful ministry, so desperately needed in Knoxville.
Click the links below to see what children still need to be adopted, their genders and ages, then sign up to bring the Light of Jesus and the truth of His birth into a child's home this Christmas!
Inner City Knoxville Area
This will be our 13th year doing Stockings of Love in Inner City Knoxville!
These stockings will be delivered on Sunday, December 15th.
Stockings of Love in the Inner City Knoxville area
Local Daycare Kids
We will also have the opportunity to bless about 25 kids in a local daycare this year. These kids are also in struggling families and these stockings will bless them in a real way, and be a door for the gospel of Jesus to shine in!
Rural Appalachia Area
PRAISE GOD! All of these Stockings have been adopted!
Please feel free to sign up in one of our other areas!
We will deliver these Christmas Stockings in Communities in Rural Appalachia on Saturday, December 7th.
Stockings of Love in Rural Appalachia.
Stockings of Love Photo Gallery
The History of Stockings of Love
Stockings of Love was started over 10 years ago to show the Love of Jesus to needy children at Christmas Time.
The vision was formed when Rob and Chris Ellis asked the children to whom they were ministering, were they excited about Christmas, and getting their Christmas Stockings.
Many of the children answered they had never received a Christmas Stocking. That year, Stockings of Love was born.
We recruit volunteers from churches around Knoxville to "adopt" a child, or children in the inner city of Knoxville, and the surrounding region of Rural Appalachia, and fill a stocking with all the things children love to receive.