Giving Gift Baskets To Express Appreciation

Giving gift baskets as a pastor appreciation gift, is one of the ideas for pastor appreciation a reader shared, prompting my comments about a pastor's salary.

Kristine's Gift Idea To Show Pastor Appreciation

After reading Ideas For Pastor Appreciation, Kristine from Houston, Texas, shared a great idea for pastor appreciation. Kristine's Gift Basket Idea:

A wonderful way to show your Pastor and your Pastor's wife appreciation is making individual gift baskets full of goodies and specially chosen items you know they will enjoy!

Pastors are such giving people and their wives are too, that they seldom spend money on the little pleasures that we often enjoy in our own life.

A simple thank you card with a special love offering tucked in it is a gift that will truly touch their hearts!

Seasonal Gift Baskets Throughout The Year

Remember that pastor appreciation is an attitude, not an event, so giving a gift basket can be done throughout the year. In fact, what I noticed is that there are seasonal gift baskets that are theme based, decorated to reflect seasonal themes.

Kristine's idea for honoring pastors is simple yet is one of those gifts that keeps on giving. If my family's response is any indication of the delight people get from a gift basket, this pastor appreciation gift will be a hit with the pastor and the pastor's family.

What made gift baskets so much fun for us is the number of small items included. You get a lot of "Look at this" comments that keep on coming as the basket full of gifts is explored.

Gift baskets have variety of items sure to please the various taste buds of the family. Each of our children zeroed in on a favorite item, unique to their own likes.

There were the favorite items that the whole family could enjoy. And when the children were young, there was the added blessing of teaching those continual lessons on sharing.

Gift Baskets And A Pastor's Salary

Because I see myself as a pastor's advocate, I decided I could not let Kristine's suggestion about the pastor's finances go by without a comment.

Kristine said "Pastors are such giving people and their wives are too, that they seldom spend money on the little pleasures that we often enjoy in our own life."

Just What Did You Mean About The Pastor's Pay Package?

By the way Kristine, your reference to "pastors seldom spending money on the little pleasures that we enjoy" hit a bruised memory in my mind.

But your comment does give me opportunity to suggest that church's examine their pastor's remuneration package, which I will address in another article.

Kristine's gift basket idea is too great of an appreciation gift to get bogged down by me sharing thoughts about the pastor's salary package.

Back To Kristine's Suggestion For Giving A Gift Basket For Pastor Appreciation?

Yes, giving a gift basket to the pastor to show appreciation and gratitude is a wonderful idea and gift baskets were one of our favorite pastor appreciation gifts we received.

That part about a cash love offering makes a gift basket even more special. We also had many of those included in the pastor appreciation gifts we received, giving us opportunity to share with our children about God supplying our needs.

Just as Kristine has shared her pastor appreciation idea, you too can spark the creative in other Pastor Appreciation Champions by sharing your pastor appreciation ideas and stories.

For Kristine, it was giving gift baskets, with a cash love offering.

Giving Gift Baskets Is A Great Pastor Appreciation Gift Idea!