Christmas Shop
In partnership with Communities in Schools, Fairfield Court Elementary School, and Anna Julia Cooper School, St. Stephen’s parishioners provide a Christmas shop for families of Fairfield and AJC students each December. Using lists the schools provide, parishioners purchase new toys, games, and other items to stock the holiday shop. The parents, grandparents, or guardians of these students visit the shop to select the things they know their children will use and enjoy.
Parishioners also sign up to sort the donated items, transport them to the gym at Fairfield, arrange them, and/or assist shoppers with their selections.
Some parents choose to gift wrap the presents while they are at the shop while others take them home to wrap.
If you’d like to donate an item or items to the shop, please use the online form to sign up for what you’d like to buy, or take an ornament from the tree stationed near the outreach table and purchase what’s written on the ornament. If you use an ornament, please be sure to leave your name and contact information at the outreach table.
Once you have purchased your item(s), please bring them to the outreach table as soon as possible, but no later than December 14, 2025.
(The outreach table is in the parish house near Palmer Hall, the parish office, and the elevator and stairs.)
You’ll also see a link (a purple button) for signing up to help transport the gifts on December 16, or assisting in the shop at Fairfield on December 17.
Dates to note
- Donated items are due at St. Stephen’s by December 14.
- Volunteers will be needed December 16 (eight drivers) and December 17 (three shifts of four people each).
- The shop will open for Fairfield parents on December 17.