Breakfast with Santa's Helper - Saturday before Thankdgiving
Cookies with Santa's Helper is the new name for Breakfast with Santa's Helper 8:30 am 10:30 an, Saturday, November 22, 2014
11/11/2024
FAMILY PROMISE of GREATER KINGSPORT will not host Breakfast (Cookies) with Santa’s Helper this year,
We WILL HOST an Applebee’s PANCAKE BREAKFAST - Santa Milt will be available for pictures.
Saturday, December 14, 8-10am
11/02/2023
07/14/2023
Taste of TriCities, Wed - Sat.
Lots of options!
☀ Feeling Hungry?! ☀
Check out the lineup for The Taste! We're already trying to figure out how we can fit in a meal from each restaurant! 😋
The Taste begins one week from today in Memorial Park across from Dobyns-Bennett! Join us daily from 4-9 p.m. on July 19, 20 and 21, and then from 3-9 on Saturday, July 22. 🤩
05/30/2023
Thinking (and seeking input) on ways to make this event more fun , involve more attendees, & possibly raise more funds...without the hassle of food.(pre-event storage, preparation, cleanup)
Ideas we have floated include
--a hot beverage ba without food: ..coffee...hot chocolate...hot cider...hot teas????
--Story time with Santa Milt.
--Additional crafts- with donations (or supply sponsors?)
PLEASE POST YOUR SUGGESTIONS...
11/21/2022
Congratulations!
Paul Montgomery is the Lifetime Member Award’s 38th honoree.
11/13/2022
One of the child-friendly crafts for 2022 Breakfast with Santa's Helper
07/04/2020
Unable to envision how to execute a2020 Breakfast with Santa’s Helper this November with proper & safe social distancing, we have decided to cancel it. We pray that the technologies, etc. will be in place by this time (July) next year to enable us to plan, prepare, & execute a 2021 Breakfast With Santa’s Helper. Donations to FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER KINGSPORT, 601 Holston St, 37660, can be made by those of you who value its ministry & service to the homeless minor children & their parents.
11/23/2019
2019 Breakfast with Santa’s Helper = 245 plates of pancakes & sausage patties. Thanks to all the volunteers who made it possible!
Address
Kingsport 1st Presbyterian Church, Fellowship Hall Kingsport, TN 37660
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8:30 -10:30am, Saturday before Thanksgiving, 1st Presbyterian Church, Fellowship Hall
Ho! Ho! Ho! – 9th Annual Breakfast with Santa’s Helper to raise funds for sheltering homeless families
Kingsport, TN – Join Family Promise of Greater Kingsport (FPGK) on Saturday, November 17th, 8:30-10:30am for the 9th annual pancake Breakfast with Santa’s Helper at the 1st Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall (corner of Broad Street and Charlemont Avenue, one block off Historic Church Circle). In addition to Breakfast, Real Bearded Santa Milt will be on hand as Santa’s Helper for photos with individuals and families. Children will be given the opportunity to create simple holiday crafts or participate in other child-friendly activities. The Holiday Gift Shop will feature small gifts and decorations, suitable for a thoughtful teacher’s gift, or holiday hostess gift, or a personal treat!
For tickets contact the FPGK Day Center at 423-246-6500 or any FPGK Board Member. Advance tickets are $5 for adults and $2.50 for children 3-12, under 3 eat for free. At the door the price is $6 for adults and $3 for children. Breakfast includes pancakes, sausage, coffee, orange juice, and milk.
One can become a FPGK Santa’s Helper’s Helper for a nominal fee ($10 for a Place Setting, $20 for a Chair, $100 per Table, $250 for an exclusive Santa’s Table Patronage). Becoming a Santa’s Helper’s Helper is a great way to remember or honor a friend or family member. The completed Patronage Forms are requested by noon, Monday, November 12th. Blank Patronage Forms can be found at www.fpgk.org or by contacting the Day Center.
Volunteers are needed for bussing tables, assisting with crafts, and general hospitality. Contact the Day Center for more information. This is a great service opportunity for students needing community service hours.
Breakfast with Santa’s Helper is a unique fund raiser and has become an important addition to FPGK’s annual activities to provide housing and transportation and build awareness of the challenges homeless families with minor children face each day in the Kingsport area. Each year, community participation and support has grown for the Breakfast. This Breakfast is not just for children. Senior adults enjoy the food and fellowship!
Family Promise of Greater Kingsport (www.fpgk.org), sponsor of the IHNGK program and 501(c)3 organization (id# 31-1703388), works with a coalition of churches in the Kingsport area that banded together in 2001 to reach out to families in crisis. Families with children make up the fastest growing segment of the homeless population. Through the IHNGK program, homeless families with children have a safe place to stay, nutritious meals, and individualized mentoring to help each homeless family on the quest to regain independence. In its “90 Day” program, FPGK is the only shelter in Kingsport currently able to accommodate two parent families, teenage boys and single fathers with teenage girls. Caring community and staff members provide guidance, transportation, encouragement and supportive services to help families find and retain permanent housing. FPGK also offers, when funding is available, rental assistance and rapid rehousing and ongoing case management.
CONTACT: FPGK Day Center, 601 Holston St, Kingsport, TN 37660 or 423-246-6500 or www.fpgk.org
Santa Milt, a.k.a, Milton Nelson, is a retired Kingsport City Schools choral director and music teacher. A master level graduate of the Santa Claus Academy, Santa Milt is a member of the Century Club of The Brotherhood of the Direct Descendants of Santa. As one of the original Four Horseman of the Kingsport Carousel Project trained at the Horsin’ Around Carving School (Soddy Daisy, TN). From February 2010 – July 2015, Santa Milt completed the carving of the little black horse, Nellie, and the big black wolf, Adahy, who escaped from Bays Mountain Park. In the Carousel “sweeps” (e.g., rafters) one can find Santa Milt’s peacock and Punk the Skunk.
