The annual Giving Tree provides gifts for families and individuals in need of support during the Christmas Season. This year, the focus will be on helping families with children who are altar servers and/or part of, St. Vincent de Paul Society, Long Creek Youth Development Center, and ABBA (a local medically certified women's pregnancy resource center). Gift tags can be taken off the trees near the baptismal font. Donors are asked to return gifts (in gift bags, please, not wrapped) with the specific gift tag attached.
Parents of altar servers and children in our faith formation ministry are welcome to reach out to the Pastoral Office and request their children be added to the Cathedral Giving Tree. Requests are confidential. Gifts given to the children must be picked up at the Pastoral Offices at a pre-arranged time on December 19 or 20. Deadline for requests is November 18 at 5pm. To make requests, please call Carolyn Mitchell at 207-773-7746 ext.110.
Gift Tag Pickup Weekends: November 23rd and 24th, November 30th and December 1st Gift Return Weekends: December 7th and 8th, December 14th and 15th
Immediately following the 10am mass on Sunday December 15th Cathedral volunteers will catalogue and prepare the gifts for pickup by families later that week. Elves are needed, if you'd like to help please reach out to Carolyn Mitchell!