… AND I frosted and sprinkled my cookie AND got a piece of pizza AND picked up my “reverse Advent calendar,” all at St. Martin Lutheran Church’s annual Evening With Santa last Friday night.
This is such a great community event, held not just for the church’s parishioners, but for anyone and everyone, as a thank you for supporting their charitable causes all year long. The Scouts of Troop 110 are always there to run games and crafts for the kids, there’s free pizza and drinks, cookie-making, story time and of course, a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus.
The reverse Advent calendar, by the way, is a sectioned box with room for 24 cans of food. The idea is to put a can IN the box every day in December up to Christmas. Then all the cans are used to stock St. Martin’s Little Free Food Pantry. I love that the folks there know I do this every year and save my pre-wrapped Advent box for me.
Here’s a slideshow with some more photos from the evening. Thank you to my friend Rebecca for providing a lot of these.
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(posted 12/8/2025)
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Love it. Merry Christmas.
You covered the parade beautifully as usual.
Thx Missy for a wonderful picture filled year.
Sharon Gavens
Aw, thank you Sharon! And Merry Christmas to you and yours as well.