Counting through the season together...

Bring the message of Advent into your everyday.

Each kit includes; a wall-hanging calendar with a hook for every day (December 1-24), handmade ornaments, links to our community giving opportunities, prompts for reflection, highlighted events and a guide to walk you through! 

We can't wait to see how you add your own festive flair as you bring this piece of Forest Brook Christmas into your home.

 Kits drop Sunday December 1, or any time after through the church office. (1 kit per household, please.)

A Celebration Each Week!

Every Sunday gathering will be packed full of Christmas carols and music, performances featuring local Forest Brook talent, a spotlight on one of our Community Partners, and a message from the Advent series, All Things New.   Plan to stick around afterward to engage in activities, eat and be merry! Especially Sunday Dec. 22 -  with only 3 sleeps 'til Christmas our gathering will be all ages together for an hour of music and message - and then we'll party! - cookie decorating, a photo booth and lots of yummy treats... plus, wear your festive sweaters to church!

Join us Christmas Eve

A family service at 5:30pm celebrating the joy of Christmas with story and song - everybody, in!

Each week in December- in the Advent Kit and on Sunday mornings- we’ll be featuring a different Community Partner

and inviting you to contribute to their meaningful work.

Learn about our partners- the C.F.O.C., Christmas Grocery Gifts and the Pregnancy Help Center - and how you can participate this season.

 

The C.F.O.C. is the organization behind The Hub and Doors of Compassion Shelter in South Ajax. Over the past 18 months they have been responding in incredible ways to the spike in the need for emergency housing and resources for the area's growing refugee population.

We've developed a friendship and partnership with the CFOC family over the past year. This Christmas they've invited us to contribute to the cold-weather needs of some of our most vulnerable neighbours.

Spotlight on the C.F.O.C during our gathering Dec. 1

On December 13 we will be hosting a large group of the C.F.O.C.'s patrons at the Christmas Community Dinner at Forest Brook.

 

 

BRING warm, non-knit scarves, mitts and hats (all month long)

DONATE Tim Horton’s gift cards

HELP SERVE at the Community Dinner December 13

 

A Forest Brook initiative (formerly called Adopt-a-Family), Christmas Grocery Gifts delivers a large food basket and grocery gift cards to local families needing extra help this season. 

Spotlight on Grocery Gifts during our gathering Dec. 8

 

PACK a grocery basket for $30 at the 'shopping' experience on Dec. 8

BRING gift cards ($25/50/100) to President's Choice or Walmart, or

DONATE to cover the costs

 

A long-time friend of ours, the Pregnancy Help Center of Durham  supports local families distressed by pregancy, offering help and hope.

Spotlight on the P.H.C. during our gathering Dec. 15

 

GIVE $10 to cover a box of chocolate in a Christmas gift bag.

 

"The word became a person, and moved into the neighbourhood"

(John 1)

This is an invitation to extend the spirit of generosity where you live, work, go to school or play. Think about a campaign at your local grocery store, through your child's school or sports team, a project at work, or something else close to your heart or home and participate there.

 

 

CHOOSE  a local initiative near or dear to you and give to their Christmas campaign.