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Santa Advent Project

In November 2025, you can be a Christmas Santa for a Prince George’s County Community Crisis Services Inc’s Warm Nights homeless family or individual. Then you prayerfully shop for, wrap, and pack the Christmas treats and deliver them to the church’s designated location in early December, and SHEEP will deliver them.  In addition to being a Christmas Santa, elves are needed to help collect the Christmas gifts and deliver them to Warm Nights.

Since 2023, St. Matthew’s UMC has teamed with St. Pius X Catholic Church to bless families and individuals in need during Advent. You can learn more about these past efforts in Circuit Rider January 2025, page 9, and Circuit Rider March 2024, page 8.

For further information, to help with Santa Advent Project or be a Santa, contact communityoutreach@stmatthews-bowie.org.

Presents waiting to be picked up for delivery to Warm Nights families (2023)

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