Members' Birthdays
Compile a list of group members' birthdays so that everyone receives a card from the group on their birthday. You will need one person from the group to take responsibility for making/buying & sending the cards but everyone can chip in to cover the cost.
House Mass:
These are very special occasions for Family Groups as you can see from the short clip of a house Mass hosted by the Rafiki group last year. Talk to your Parish Priest about this and get a team of volunteers to help with the organisation.
Italian Get-TogetherHave an Italian meal with group members bringing contributions of food (meatballs, lasagne, bolognese, garlic bread etc). Perhaps bring along some nice desserts and some Italian wine or beer too. As well as chefs to cook the pasta, you'll need someone to coordinate the music or to arrange song sheets and music for a sing along. The venue could be your local social centre or parish hall and, if they liked, group members could come wearing red, white and green.
Secret Santa
At your penultimate meeting of the year put all the names in a hat and ask everyone to pull out the name of someone for whom they will buy a Christmas gift. Limit the cost of the gift to £1 maximum. At your Christmas meeting bring your gifts wrapped with a gift-tag marked with the person’s name and hand them out from Santa's sack during the meeting. Each family could also bring a Christmas card with a message and greeting inside from their family. These could be distributed during the meeting so that every family takes a card home from someone in the group.
Example of a Rafiki Family Group newsletter and annual programme of events
If your parish has any great ideas for Family Groups or details of upcoming events, reports or pictures that you would like to share on this Blog please contact the MFL Project Office
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