Richard

The big department stores seem to be going all out this Christmas – big budget productions. Often they tug on our heartstrings, but this one made me smile. This is luxury department store, Harvey Nichols (other good department stores can also be found!). “Avoid Gift Face” is the tagline for their campaign which shows the forced smiles we are often required to put on at Christmas when unwrapping that present that isn’t exactly our thing. Too polite to reveal our true feelings we instead resort to putting on a pretend smile – gift face. According to one statistic I read, 72% of adults admitted to having pulled a gift face and 63% will wear or use their gift just to protect a loved one’s feelings. Only 27% would actually confess their true feelings.

Each day during Advent we're giving you the opportunity to enter our free prize draw where you could win an iPad Mini 16Gb WiFi in the colour of your choice (silver or space grey) for you or your church. To enter, all you have to do is find the mince pie! Hidden throughout the ChurchApp website are numbered mince pies like the one above. Once you've found the correct mince pie with today's date on it, copy the URL of the ChurchApp website page from your browser address bar, then return to this advent blog page and enter using the Rafflecopter entry form below. You can only enter once each day (but come back to our Advent Blog each day to increase you chances of winning).

The winner will be chosen at random on 28th December and contacted by email. Your contact details will not be shared with third parties. By entering, you agree for us to share your name and church name in our competition winner publicity should you win. All the best!

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