Now this is how to celebrate Christmas!

As we emerge from piles of wrapping paper, lament the amount of cookies we’ve consumed, and reflect on the good times and good people we enjoyed at Christmas, I hope you get rejuvenated by updates from folks who spent the season of Advent preparing for a Fair Trade Christmas.

Bob Walz of Guardian Angels parish in Minnesota helped organize a Fair Trade forum, in cooperation with local CRS Fair Trade coffee partners and featuring crafts from a Work of Human Hands (see bright, smiling faces below!). About 70 people attended the forum and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis used the occasion to unveil its new Fair Trade website. If you live in Minnesota, check it out for local sources of Fair Trade. Anybody looking for ideas about having a great web-based resource will find the site of interest too.

Further south in Ormond Beach, Florida, Mike Buckler hosted a Fair Trade coffee house, featuring a talk by CRS’s own Martha Gaynoe and a concert that attracted about 200 high school or college students and 75 to 100 adults. Mike reports that they sold about $3000 of Fair Trade merchandise, a difference of $2,200 from last year. Way to go folks in Florida!

Combining music and economic justice is just one way we at CRS are trying to build solidarity among youth. Check out the CRS education website to see if there is a praise and adoration event coming to your community in 2008!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 and is filed under Coffee, Events, Fair Trade, crafts . You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Now this is how to celebrate Christmas!

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