Keep Christ in Christmas Committee

 

Chariman: SK Joseph L Shankle

 

Activities: Billboards (Twice) Information from Supreme for this committee:

  • Sponsor a “Keep Christ in Christmas” billboard. Billboard posters are available from Christ Is Christmas/P.O. Box 20717/Roanoke, VA 24018/telephone: 800-722-5032/www.christischristmas.com.
  • Distribute “Keep Christ in Christmas” materials, available through Christ Is Christmas (see above) or the Supreme Council Supply Department.
  • Create your own Advent calendar of actions you can take each day to bring you closer to Christ. Write your scheduled activities on a calendar posted prominently. Your activities can be for your own personal enrichment or to help those around you. Your council can create a similar Advent project calendar full of small community service projects for members to undertake daily.
  • Promote Advent wreaths in your council bulletin as a means for families to mark the time of preparation for the coming celebration of Christ’s birth. Urge members to participate with a wreath in their homes.
  • Organize a parish nativity play, with children from your parish or local parochial school playing the parts.
  • Volunteer to work in a soup kitchen in your community during the Christmas season.
  • Encourage children in your parish to give gifts they made or gifts of themselves.
  • Buy Christmas cards with religious themes.
  • Visit hospitals and nursing homes during the Christmas season. Present each patient with a religious Christmas card. Bring a supply of cards large enough that you can give the patients cards they can send to family and friends. Offer to help write and mail cards if necessary.
  • Order and display or distribute “Keep Christ in Christmas” printed materials available from the Supreme Council Supply Department. Posters (#2760, E,F,S; #2757, E, #4554, E,F,S; #4555, E) are available for only the cost of mailing.
  • Sponsor “Keep Christ in Christmas” spot announcements on radio and television. Pre- recorded public service announcements for radio and television are available from the Supreme Council Department of Fraternal Services.
  • Participate in the Orderwide “Light Up For Christ” program to help share the light of the Advent season with your community and the world. Plan a Christmas tree or nativity scene lighting ceremony for the first Tuesday in December. Then, at precisely 8 p.m., local time, throw the switch to “Light Up For Christ.”
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