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December 12th – 15th, 2024

There are plenty of festive activities to enjoy on the Coastal Georgia/Florida line, including Dickens on Center. “The tenth annual Dickens on Centre festival in historic downtown Fernandina Beach, Florida, on beautiful Amelia Island promises to be the biggest and merriest we’ve ever had! Free to the public, this Victorian holiday festival is sure to enliven your Christmas spirit. Throughout the weekend, feel the spirit of the holiday with Victorian-inspired entertainment on two stages. Families will enjoy a plethora of fun including Tiny Tim’s Kids Zone, visits with St. Nick, holiday entertainment and shopping, festive food and drink, costumed characters, holiday movies and plenty of Christmas inspiration.”

This Christmas, Come Make Memories.

Emmanuel Haiti started entirely by accident when Mary Phil and son Mat went to Jeremie, Haiti with a group in 2013. While there, they met a pastor and 50 orphans who were being evicted from their home that week. After returning to the US, the $50,000 needed to build an orphanage was given within two days by a donor with two stipulations: it was to be “anonymous and to the glory of God.”  Emmanuel Haiti has grown to include not only the orphanage but a school with over 600 students, a medical clinic, two transition homes for children who have aged out of orphanages, a Bakery, sewing business and other enterprises to provide jobs for those kids, 15 churches all over Haiti, and a beautiful new widow village that gives homes to hard-working widows who then adopt girls from the orphanages, giving them a forever family. Orphan prevention is a main focus now, with homes built for families and scholarships given to children who would not be able to attend school otherwise and to whom the warm meal every day means a chance to stay with their families. The online Christmas catalog (emmanuelhaitimarket.com) and Haiti 5K help cover the costs of these projects, but the heart of the ministry is always the relationship with the very special Haitian people.

Mary Phil serves as the Director of Emmanuel Haiti and Ralph heads up 2911 Jeremie, a ministry that creates the businesses and provides higher education for these deserving kids. Five are even in medical school in Cuba with plans to return to Haiti as doctors to make a difference.