For the fourth year, The Federated Church Meetinghouse will be filled with over fifty creches in a display titled “There is no Room in the Inn” for the benefit of Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard. These are miniature nativity scenes, which celebrate the birth of Jesus. Children are welcome and will go home with stickers of the nativity scene and a backdrop to color.

The Creches reflect the creativity of the artists who have made the individual scenes. They range in style from delicate creches made of fragile crystal and glass to the austere beauty of Haitian scenes crafted out of metal salvage from oil drums. They come from all over the world including ones from Haiti, Mexico, Germany, and France.

12:30 – Blessing of Habitat for Humanity Silent Auction and the Creches Display

Followed by caroling with the Not Quite Dickens Singers

2:00 Scavenger Hunt. 

Find the 10 objects hidden in the creches and win a creche ornament for your tree.

3:00 Cubist, Renaissance and Teddy Bear Creches

Join Church Historian Elizabeth Villard for a walk around the more than 50 creches on display and learn something of their origins and history.