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 wonderful.
You can use an XL Ziploc bag for the stocking and extra gifts!
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!
Click the buttons to sign up to fill however many stockings you feel you can do.
You can drop off the Stockings at our Barrels in Work Out Anytime in Powell or Halls, or at Trinity Community Church. (during business hours).
Rural Appalachia Area
We have organized Christmas Stockings for this region of Rural Appalachia for the last 10 years, and we are so excited to do it again this year!
The last drop off date for these Stockings will be:
Wednesday December 3rd at Trinity Community Church
from 9:00am-9:00pm.
We will deliver these Christmas Stockings in Communities in Rural Appalachia on Saturday, December 6th.
for christmas stockings in the new river community
of rural appalachia tennessee!
Inner City Knoxville Area
This will be our 14th year doing Stockings of Love in Inner City Knoxville!
The last drop off date for these Stockings will be:
Wednesday December 10th at Trinity Community Church
from 9:00am-9:00pm.
These stockings will be delivered on Sunday, December 14th.
christmas stockings in the inner city area of knoxville tn!
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!
Local ESL Student's Children
Many wonderful immigrant families move into our area every year.
Many live below the poverty level, and attend "The Center For English and Assimilation" classes to help them learn English, sign up for needed resources, apply for driver's lisences and even citizenship.
We love these families and desire to see their children blessed with a simple stocking, with simple gifts, with lots of candy and good treats, and the free good news of God's Love and Jesus' Birth!
christmas stockings in OUR LOCAL ESL SCHOOL!
Stockings of Love Photo Gallery
The History of Stockings of Love
Stockings of Love was started 2009 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, if they were 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 with one purpose.
To share the Love of Jesus to wonderful children through a Christmas Stocking!
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.