18th Annual Emerald Coast Christmas Miracle Fiesta

David Triana Posted: December 18, 2022

A few “behind the scenes” pictures leading to the sunday’s 18th Annual Emerald Coast Christmas Miracle Fiesta!

More than 200 families have pre-registered and many, many more continue to email and call us.

The Toy Wrapping and matching to registered kids team has finished their key tasks having worked since last Saturday!

The Decorations team has been hard at work for a couple of days and doing a great job and tomorrow, the Food team will finish securing some of the key items to serve to attendees that day to complement the donations of food by El Paso, Pedro’s, and Sabor a Mexico restaurants, as well as Tony’s Latin Food Truck, pizza from Helen Back, cupcakes from Tienda La Mexicana y Taqueria in Destin and delicious Culver’s custard!

The entertainment is all lined up and ELEVEN partner agencies and sponsors will be setting up activity tables at the Fiesta including our friend Geraldyn’s Lumipod photo booth, magicians Jeff Sobel and Brian Ward, The Youth Village, Shelter House, United Way/Early Learning Coalition, Wentz Enterprises, Pyramid Inc., Students Working Against Tobacco, Bikers Against Child Abuse, Scentsy, and Allied Marketing Insurance!

Toys for Tots donated more than 500 toys and Bikes or Bust 52 bikes and we also got toys donated by Pepper’s, Hensel Phelps, Integrity Chiropractic, Scentsy, Yani Torres, and the 505th Training Squadron at Hurlburt Field!

Our Fiesta’s slogan is “UNITING the CommUNITY, for the Children and as you can see above, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

May God bless all the above and our great group of sponsors and donors (see our flyer for that).

We pray for a great day on Sunday so as many kids and families as possible are able to attend!

VOLUNTEERS welcomed!

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