Alternative Christmas Market

November 15th & 16th, Saturday 4-7pm, Sunday 8am-2pm @ O’Donnell Hall, AMC Manhattan Beach, CA

American Martyrs is hosting their annual conscious Christmas Market for meaningful holiday shopping experience, offering a unique opportunity to support fair trade artisans, non-profit initiatives, and socially responsible businesses.

Find beautiful, handcrafted gifts while making a positive impact in the world. Every purchase helps support sustainable livelihoods, empower communities, and promote ethical practices around the globe. Let’s celebrate a season of giving that truly gives back.

eChange Endeavors will have a table offering three wonderful opportunities to support families and missionaries in Uganda!

You can donate to our Christmas Dinner initiative $25 dollars which provides a family of 5 a dinner with meat, sides, soda and Christmas cake or cookies. Bless a family or 2 seniors with unexpected joy this Christmas. Give today! Learn more.

For the Diocese of Lira and YOUFRA (Young Franciscans) Advent Retreat program we are seeking $2,000. This will provide 500 young adults between 25-35 with a 1-day opportunity for prayer, reflection, healing and community across 4 deaneries bringing peace, hope and joy to their Advent journey to Christmas. Give today! Learn More.

Support our scholarship program with Ocer Campion Jesuit College, St Joseph College (Franciscan), Children’s Community Care, and YOUFRA. $200 sponsors one high school student’s tuition for a term, $600 covers a full year. Alternatively, $200 supports one primary student for a year with all their personal requirements. We currently support 30 students ranging from primary 5 through university who otherwise would not be attending school. It is our generosity that makes education possible for the students and their families.

If you make a scholarship donation of $200 or higher, we will bless you with a thank you gift of a My Saint My Hero Little Saints bracelet with hand casted metals from Italy and handmade by women in Uganda.

Give today!

Christmas Dinners & Bundles 2025

Our Christmas dinner initiative has been greatly enjoyed both by our giving and receiving families! This year we want to ensure 100 families and more experience the unexpected joy of Christmas!  We touch families with special needs children, poor familieselderly, orphans, and individuals with disabilities.

We connect with children through our partners: Children’s Community Care, YOUFRA Youth Centre Lira, YOUFRA Tororo, YOUFRA Disabilities group Soroti, the Xaverians, and St Joseph College Padhola.

A good Christmas in Uganda is to attend Church followed by a dinner feast together. This includes eating meat–beef or goat along with tasty options of rice, matoke (banana), potatoes, and veggies with soda, then enjoying Christmas cake or cookies. The children look forward to this day all year long. Without our support this year’s Christmas dinner will be just another meal of beans and portio (corn meal).

This December we seek to bless 25 families with Christmas dinners, 75 seniors with Christmas bundles, and sponsor 3 Children’s Christmas parties. Will you help break the tedium of poverty and fill their hearts anew with love, hope, and joy this Christmas? Will you give $25 today to help one family or two seniors have a blessed and joyful Christmas dinner?

Donate here!

May God richly bless you and your family this Christmas season for unto us the Christ child is born ever new in our hearts!

Christmas Dinners

Would you consider donating $25 to cover the cost of Christmas dinner for one family in Uganda?

Gerald Ogenrwot, Grandmother, Brother & Family

We had such a positive response to our Christmas dinner initiative last year by both the giving and receiving families, we have decided to do it again this year!

Life continues to be hard in Uganda. Schools were shut down again in June and still not yet been allowed to open again. This has left many at home with not enough to do.  Teenage pregnancies have soared in the country. The weather went from too much rain in 2020 to too little rain in 2021 further destroying crops. The President and administration continue to shutdown markets and business activities, despite minimal cases and few deaths from COVID. Economic problems abound causing a ripple effect of despair and discouragement.  In this season of hope, you can spread God’s love and mercy with a small gift of $25 for one family.  

We want 50 families to experience the unexpected joy of Christmas this year.  Families with special needs children, as well as teachers, students, widows, orphans, and individuals with disabilities.

To have a good Christmas in Uganda is to attend Church followed by a dinner feast together that includes meat. Children look forward to this day all year long. Without our support this year shall be just another meal of beans and portio (corn meal).

Just $25 will buy 1 chicken (or equivalent beef/goat), plus rice, additional sides, sodas to share, and Christmas cake for a family of five to eight.

Will you help us bless 50 families with a Christmas Dinner gift?

We have already received contributions for 10 Christmas Dinners!  

May God bless you and your family this Christmas season for unto us the Christ child is born ever new in our hearts!

“O give thanks to the Lord for he is good; for his love endures for ever.”  

Psalm 107:1