Children’s Christmas Party for Underprivileged Families
Our Tradition
Our Council has created a decades long tradition of providing a wonderful Christmas to families that may not be able to celebrate it themselves. Our initial program, led by PGK Jerry Schiazzanno, provided every child with a Sunday best outfit, a Christmas Gift and a luncheon party. To this day we have continued this program and have built on the success of previous committee chairman that have always brought love and cheer to those who might need it most during the Christmas Season.
How to participate in this program
The committee begins preparing for this program in the beginning of September with the actual date of the party usually the 2nd weekend in December with the 3rd weekend as a snow date. There are 4 major phases that needs help.
1) Planning - begins in September (determine families to support, entertainment, gift list, initial budget, donor seeking campaign, food menu, logistics)
2) Gift buying/Wrapping - this is a major need. We need as many volunteers as possible throughout the whole month of November. Each child is given a pair of Pants, Shirt, Winter Coat, Toy from Wishlist, and Stocking Stuffer.
3) Decorating - Throughout the years we have continually built settings and decorations to transform the hall into a winter wonderland north pole experience. A lot of labor is needed to help transform the room.
4) Day of volunteers - we need volunteers to help interact with the children. To make it a more fun and interactive event, we join in the games and festivities with the children. We also need help serving food, handing out the right gifts to Santa with personalized gifts.
