Event Timeline

Updated 11/5/23

Friday, November 10th

• Drop off supplies by Noon

  • • small waters, mini marshmallow, mini m&ms and choc chips  - Darssy Lemus

    • peppermint sticks, whip cream, - Tammy Wichard

    • piroutte cookies - Tammy Wichard & Stephanie Neill

• Melinda to pick up supplies from church office

Saturday, November 11th

• Set up in Parish Center starting at 10:30am

• Christmas trees, stage, photo booth, hot cocoa bar

  • • Kathleen Remsen, Holly Doerr, Melinda Gwilt

    • If anyone else is available, please come help!

Sunday, November 12th

• Parish Center doors open at 11:00am

• Coffee, Hot Cocoa, Mini Bagels, and Donut Holes picked up (Kathleen/Melinda)

• Mass begins at 11:30am

• Photographer, Marisol, arrives at 12:00pm 

• Speaker arrives from DJ at TBD

• Pageant dress rehearsal starts at 12:15pm 

  • • • Please contact Holly Doerr if you have any questions! 

• Mass ends approximately 12:40pm

• Advent Celebration begins 

• Hot cocoa bar opens

  • • servers - Kristin Blanton & Deysi Hurtado

• Welcome & description of the days events at approximately 12:45pm (Kathleen Remsen)

• Blessing by Father TBD

• Children's pageant at approximately 1:30pm (Holly Doerr)

  • • Mary - Eva Doerr

    • Joseph - Diego Forlano

    • Shepherds - Baron Gillispie, Oliver Lexima

    • Angels - Bella & Emma Blanco, Ella Doerr, Elizabeth McCarthy, Zoe Lemus 

    • Wise men - Emmit Doerr, Alex McCarthy, Pellot 

    • Sheep - Benedict Lexima

    • Narrator - Blake Gwilt

• Fellowship and Fun - Decorate Christmas cookies and make Advent candle craft at 2:00pm

  • • • cookie bakers - Ja'net and Maria

      • cookie helpers - Nicole Blanco & Julie Gillispie

• Advent Candle Sale $7 per set 

• Photographer leaves at 2:30pm

• Clean up

  • • Please take any extra supplies you bring home with you! 

NEW THIS YEAR

• This year the celebration will be after 11:30am mass (not 9:30am)

  • • This allows our families to set up then attend mass, and fellowship together after mass without a large crowd. 

• We will be scaling back on the advertising this year

  • • Everyone is still welcome! 

    • CCD (aka Faith Formation) families are encouraged to join us like last year

      • • We are working with Robert Deflin, the new leader of Faith Formation

    • We will post the event in the church bulletin for those who want to join us from the congregation.  

    • However, we will not be including fliers in the Thursday school folders.  

    • This will give us the opportunity to have time for fellowship and hopefully cut back on the time it takes to plan and execute large events. 

• We are asking for families to RSVP in advance this year to help with the head count for the hot cocoa, cookie decorating, and craft supplies. 

• We will have help from the DJ for better audio this year - he will provide mic and speaker

• We have hired a photographer to help with the photo booth pictures. 

• The pageant will be the main focus this year

  • • We ask all kiddos interested in being involved to sign up as soon as possible! 

    • This year we will have a couple of rehearsals before the pageant - these will be fun nights filled with fellowship, rehearsal, and pot luck

Photos from 2022