Festival of Trees to return to Windham Hill UCC

The Fourth Annual Christmas Festival of Trees will be held Dec. 3 to Dec. 5 at Fellowship Hall, Windham Hill United Church of Christ, 140 Windham Center Road in Windham. 

This much-anticipated event for the community of Windham is a showcase for local merchants and organizations as well as a fundraiser for Windham Hill United Church of Christ, the founding church of Windham and a historic landmark for the town.

Festival hours are 2 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3 and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4. On Sunday, Dec. 5, the festival will be open from noon to 4 p.m. with the Grand Drawing of Winners to be conducted at 4 p.m. Sunday.

The church’s Fellowship Hall will be decorated for the Holiday season and refreshments will be available. 

There will be 20 decorated Christmas trees with lights, each one donated by one of our local businesses or individuals.

The tree sponsor will decorate the tree and then put gifts on and around the tree, many from their store or organization. Winners will receive the tree itself, with its lights and ornaments, all of the gifts on the tree, and all of the gifts under the tree.

At our last Festival of Trees, the winners took home everything from toys and gift items to kitchen supplies and jewelry. There was great excitement at the Grand Drawing.

This year there will be several new trees added to popular donors from the church’s last Festival.

Admission to the Festival of Trees is free and everyone is welcome to visit to see these beautiful trees with the gifts from our tree sponsors. There will be tickets on sale for 50 cents each, 10 for $5 or 40 tickets for $20.

A bucket will be in front of each display. One ticket will be drawn for each tree at 4 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.

The winners will need to claim their tree and gifts by 4 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 7.

This event is a fundraising activity of Windham Hill United Church of Christ to benefit their mission program featuring local, national and international missions including: Heifer International; the Root Cellar; Windham Food Pantry; Church World Service; SERRV; and many other organizations.

Windham Hill United Church of Christ is an Open and Affirming church, welcoming all who would come.

The church was founded in 1743 and has been central to the life of Windham throughout Windham’s history as a town. <