Merry Christmas from Steinbach!What better way to celebrate the season than with our first high school event – an “Elf” movie night! It was great to spend time with some of the youth who will be involved with our high school youth group in January. It was a lot of fun and it is easy to see how excited the youth are to start the youth group in the new year.
Our recent family f
un day was a huge success with over 60 parishioners participating in our gingerbread house making contest. Thanks to one of our parishioners, we received a great deal on some gingerbread house kits to give to each family/team. The afternoon started off with a drama about the Annunciation and the struggles Mary 
had to face once she said “yes” to God’s request. We also had a talk about Advent and preparing for Christmas and a skit about the story of St. Nicholas. From there we handed out the kits and let the families design their houses together. Amy put together some wonderful prizes for the most creative and the cutest houses, as well as the family that showed the best teamwork. It was great seeing how different each house was and seeing all the different strategies each family had. One group of sisters had the genius idea of crushing a candy cane and using that to decorate the pathway to their house’s door.
un day was a huge success with over 60 parishioners participating in our gingerbread house making contest. Thanks to one of our parishioners, we received a great deal on some gingerbread house kits to give to each family/team. The afternoon started off with a drama about the Annunciation and the struggles Mary 
had to face once she said “yes” to God’s request. We also had a talk about Advent and preparing for Christmas and a skit about the story of St. Nicholas. From there we handed out the kits and let the families design their houses together. Amy put together some wonderful prizes for the most creative and the cutest houses, as well as the family that showed the best teamwork. It was great seeing how different each house was and seeing all the different strategies each family had. One group of sisters had the genius idea of crushing a candy cane and using that to decorate the pathway to their house’s door. My favourite part of the past week was when a parishioner came into our office after Mass and told us how his young son randomly says “nibble, nibble”. This line comes from a skit Andrew and Brenden performed at our parish talent show. I guess we are a memorable bunch, even to the younger parishioners.
Although the team is excited to go home for Christmas, we will definitely miss this parish. We hope that every parishioner has a blessed Christmas and New Year and that they may continue to grow in fellowship this season. And we wish the same to all of you reading this.
God bless!
Elizabeth Fitzmaurice
Elizabeth Fitzmaurice
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