For over a decade, we have partnered with 4 schools (which we call our Adopted Schools) in Surrey to help bring the wonder and joy of Christmas to young students and their families.
We do this with one goal in mind: to come alongside our community and help make the holiday season a little lighter and brighter.
The Relate Christmas Project, in partnership with the Surrey School board and other community organizations, is proud to provide Christmas food hampers, and gift over 2100 presents to our adopted school students. We do this to ease the burden of families facing food insecurity, financial hardship, and housing instability, knowing that Christmastime can often bring added pressure to many households.
Our goal is to raise $64,500 to provide:
2,100 Christmas gifts for students at our four adopted schools, at approximately $25 per child.
120 food hampers for families experiencing food insecurity, at approximately $100 per family.
Hundreds of volunteers will help shop, organize, wrap, prepare, and deliver.
Let’s spread the joy of Christmas together this season! Your partnership with our Christmas initiatives can help make a tremendous impact on individual lives, and our community broadly. We appreciate any time, resources or finances you can contribute towards our project.
*When prompted, click the drop down menu to designate funds directly to the Christmas Project.
Help bring light and joy to many families this season. Together, we can make a real impact.
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Prepping for the gift wrapping
Dec 7 | 10am - 2pm
Dec 8 | 10am - 2pm
Gift Wrapping
Dec 9 | 4:30pm - 9pm
Prepping for Food Hamper Assembly
Dec 10 | 10am - 12:30pm
Home Made Cookies
We give one dozen cookies to each family to bless them with something home made. Each should be packaged and brought to the church for
Sunday, Dec 13 at 9:30am
Food Hamper Assembly
Sunday, Dec 13 - directly following the service (11:30am)
Sunday, Dec 13 - all home made cookies dropped off to Relate Church (one dozen cookies per family - peanut free cookies please)
Food Hamper Deliveries
Sunday, Dec 13 community food hamper deliveries
Monday Dec 14 | 9 am (Food hamper deliveries to two schools)
Monday, Dec 14 | 10 am - Noon (Food Hamper pick ups at Relate Church)
Tuesday, Dec 15 | 9 am (Food hamper deliveries to two schools)
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A call for cookies: As we prepare to package and deliver Christmas food hampers, we’re inviting you to bake! Baking is part of the joy of the holiday season and our hampers wouldn’t be complete without a touch of home.
Cookies need to be NUT FREE and packaged by the dozen. They can be brought to church on Sunday, December 13th.If you’d like to bake let us know here.
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We’d love to serve alongside of you. Click here to sign up.
PURDY’S CHOCOLATE FUNDRAISER
As Christmas approaches, we are doing a Purdy’s chocolate fundraiser, where one 100% of the profits we make will go towards our Christmas Project.
There are 2 ways you can participate:
Shop Purdy’s Chocolate. Treat yourself or someone you love to delicious Purdy’s chocolates! Shop here.
Join our Fundraising Team. Want to help us reach even more people? You can create an account to join our Purdy’s fundraising team and share the fundraiser with your friends, family, colleagues, and wider networks. When they order through your personal fundraising link, their purchases will be tracked under your name, making easy to coordinated pick up/delivery.
Important dates to remember:
Order deadline: Sunday, November 29
Chocolate pick-up: Sunday, December 6, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Pick-up location: 6788 152 Street, Surrey
Have questions? Email Michelle Here.