Santa and Christmas

How to make Christmas Mincemeat for your own Christmas Tarts is one of the recipes you will find in this website for Christmas and Santa. Maybe your are more interested in where to find Christmas Presents or Christmas Cards, you will find links from here for those as well. And, a few tips about what life is like in New Zealand at Christmas time and maybe a photo of our Santa...so you can compare!!

Sunday, November 05, 2006

White Christmas

When people think of 'White Christmas', most would probably think of the well known song that Bing Crosby made the most popular version of.

Back in 1914 a new type of service was introduced into some Protestant Sunday Schools. The 'White Christmas' service encouraged children to bring gifts for the needy. To this day the tradition continues. People collect canned food, toys and money to help the poor enjoy Christmas a little more. The custom was to wrap the gifts in white paper and some churches referred to the service as 'White Gift Sunday'...

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