Families are invited to join with others across the diocese in a fun and creative Advent project to help prepare your hearts and homes for Christmas! A Jesse Tree is sort of like an Advent calendar – each day through Advent you read a bible story and add an ornament representing that symbol to your Jesse Tree (you can read more about it here.) The stories trace the story of Jesus’s family through scripture, bringing you right to the birth of Jesus.

Our Jesse Tree Project will connect up to 24 families to one another as they journey through Advent together with their Jesse Trees. Each participating family will get crafty and create 24 copies of one of the ornaments, and send them into the Synod Office. The ornaments will be packaged up and redistributed so that each family gets one for each day. All of the families will be invited to hop on a zoom call together at the start of Advent (on November 30th, time TBA) to kick things off, and then again for a wrap up around Epiphany.

We’ve received a generous grant from the Growth for Ministry Fund which will cover the cost of prepaid shipping boxes and some craft supplies for all participating families, so there is no cost to participate in this.

Of all of the things that impact faith formation through childhood and adolescence, practicing faith at home is the one that has the biggest impact, and we hope that this project will help families do just that, and help them dig deeper into stories of our faith and all that Christmas means.

Families can register now to be part of this project, or can get in touch with Allie at youthandfamily@nspeidiocese.ca or (902) 789 3481 if you have any questions!

Please note that this project was created with families with children and youth in mind. If your family doesn't include any children or youth who would participate, please select wait list as your regsitration type. If we have any remaining spots as of October 15, any families on the waitlist will be given spots, in order of when they registered.