Family Monthly Bulletin December 2008

The REAL SANTA: Saint Nicholas

The real Santa lived a long time ago in a place called Asia Minor. It is now the country of Turkey. His name was Nicholas.
Nicholas' parents died when he was just a teenager. His parents left him a lot of money which made him a rich young man. He went to live with his uncle who was a priest.
Nicholas heard about a man who had lost all his money. He had three daughters who were old enough to get married. But in those days young women had to have money in order to get married. This money was a "dowry" and it was used to help the new family get started. If you didn't have dowry money, you didn't get married.....

What did Nicholas do to help this family?
How St Nicholas became Santa Claus?
How are we going to pass the Christmas message around this year at Port Moody Church?

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