In one of my many jobs as a secretary for a local church, we brainstorm regularly how to engage the community as Sunday Church is certainly a thing of the past. We came up with the Hallmark Christmas Festival, trying to recreate the scenes of the movie, where the actors go into a Christmas Festival and string popcorn garlands or enjoy a deluxe hot chocolate and so on. We realized quickly we wouldn’t be able to pull if off all by ourselves, so we reached out to community organisations and business asking if they would like to offer a station in exchange for advertising for their business or organisation.
We decorated the church and were super excited when we had 4 other groups commit. In the end we ended up with even more! We advertised with flyers and on social media and we were happy with over 80 people showing up to participate in our #HallmarkChristmasKillam. Hopefully the “First Annual” of many more to come.
Here is my live tweet as we were getting the hot chocolate going, ponies arriving and people starting to set up their stations. Live tweeting a story is definitely not as easy as I expected! Follow along here:
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