Light Up the Night including Maker's Market
You might have noticed that our Fellowship Hall windows are getting more colorful with every week that is going by. Our Voyager and Pathfinder children are putting a lot of work effort into the task of creating the Christmas story in pictures. On our "Light Up the Night" event we invite you all, young and old, to come and celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season with us. This will be an outdoor event, please dress accordingly. There will be freshly baked waffles and hot chocolate for a free will donation. This donation will be used to pay for bus transportation during caroling and other Children and Family Ministry expenses. Our kids’ groups will sing some of their Christmas program songs as well. As a special surprise for all attending children, we will have a special visitor. After learning of the origin story, we will get a visit from St. Nikolaus (not Santa Clause, but looks the same), who will bring nuts and oranges for the children. Why do we call it "Light Up the Night" event? Besides having warming fires we will also reveal the beautifully painted, colorful windows by lighting them up in a ceremonial way for everyone to see and enjoy. Maker’s Market: this combined event offers ‘children’ of all ages (0-99) the chance to showcase their talents - whether in crafting, baking, or other handmade creations. All children and youth-aged participants are able to sell the products of their craft skills in a maker’s market style. If you enjoy making jewelry, pottery, soap making, story writing, drawing, book binding, baking, clothes designing, or any other kind of crafting you have the opportunity to set up a table and showcase your products. You will be in charge of either bringing a table or borrowing one of ours, setting up, decorating and tearing down your own shop. It is an outdoor event, please plan accordingly. Be mindful of the time of day - evening, when it is dark out. You will have to provide lighting for your ‘booth,’ like battery operated light chains, fully enclosed candle lanterns/ battery powered lanterns, or shop lights. We won’t be able to provide electrical outlets for everyone. So please plan on using battery powered options.
