Hospitality and Newcomers Overview
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An important part of parish life is social.  In a community (and especially a church community) our social life enhances our religious life. Throughout the year there are a number of activities that help members of our parish family get to know each other better. These include the following:


Progressive Dinner
The progressive dinner will be held on a Saturday in October. It begins with cocktails at the home of a parishioner and continues with dinners at the homes of parishioners. Where one goes for dinner is determined by lottery. At the conclusion of the dinners everyone is invited to dessert at the home of a parishioner. The Progressive Dinner is a wonderful opportunity to get to know many people you only see at church on Sundays—and to know some much better because you have had the more intimate experience of dinner with them.

Rectory Dinners
Throughout the year parishioners are invited to dinner at the Rectory.  Over a three-year-period we expect that all members of Christ Church will have the opportunity to have dinner at the rectory in groups of six to eight. Dinners are held monthly, mostly on Saturday evenings.

Spring Cocktail Party
Each spring the Fellowship Committee of Christ Church holds a cocktail party at a club in the Manhasset area. Details of the 2006 event will be available early next year.

Holly Fair (annual bazaar / fund-raiser)
Too good to let languish was the prevailing sentiment about the Holly Fair. For that reason a small committee (Valarie Siener, Jane Lightcap, Oriana Cyprus and Audrey Eisser ) set out to see how the Holly Fair could be slimmed
down and reinvigorated to meet the present needs of Christ Church and Manhasset.

The committee reported to the Vestry in June about their plans and the Vestry requested that they move forward with the ‘new’ Holly Fair.  Smaller and more compact, the Holly Fair will have a formal opening gala on Friday evening
(with wine and cheese/tapas). The Saturday hours for the Fair will be shorter (10:00 a.m. to 3:00 or 4:00 p.m.), but many of the favorites of the fair will be back—and more ‘family-friendly’ activities will be featured.

To make the Fair a success, your help is necessary. Also, please set aside the evening of Friday, December 2 and Saturday, December 3 for the ‘new’ Holly Fair!.

10 September 2005