We're now starting the holiday season, with Christmas just weeks away and every year there's a cry that the holiday has become too commercialised.
One church is combating that with an advent calendar to bring the focus back to what they think Christmas should be about - kindness.
The 'daily-act-of-kindness' calendar was launched last week and will run right through til December 25 and we ask Veeshayne Patuwai how people can get involved.