The NOEL Community will host their 24th Annual Christmas Dinner at St. Paul’s by-the-Sea, at 302 Baltimore Avenue, Ocean City, MD 21842 from 10am – Noon.

Last year, they modified how to distribute a non-perishable and mostly precooked dinner to simply heat at home. This change allows the NOEL Community to provide for many in the safest way possible with limited volunteers. The volunteers are filling 72 cloth bags with non-perishable foods to enjoy for Christmas. Generous donations from the community will be used to purchase hams, vegetables, potatoes, biscuits, and desserts. The bags will be handed out on Thursday December 23 at Shepherd’s Crook from 10:00 am – 12:00 noon.

There are also bags to be distributed to those that do not have homes and cannot heat their meals. In keeping with tradition, the NOEL Community will also provide Christmas dinner for our local first responders and town employees working on Christmas Day.

If you would like to make a donation to NOEL to support the Christmas dinner and year round outreach, mail a check payable to the NOEL Community to St. Paul’s by-the-Sea, at 302 Baltimore Avenue, Ocean City, MD 21842.

As always, thank you for the support for the NOEL Community and please keep in mind Sunday food donations for the Shepherd’s Crook are appreciated year round. Non-perishable items can be placed in the basket as you enter church.

Monica Martin, Katie Coffman, Terry Moody, Jackie Carey
(team members of the NOEL Community and of the parish family at Church of the Holy Spirit)