The Festival will feature an opportunity for guests to celebrate their creativity with a hands-on art project,  and children can relax in our storytelling tent and take an imaginary journey to another culture as volunteers read from a selection of international children’s books.   

For two days in December, Lakeview Presbyterian Church offers the New Orleans community an opportunity to invest in their world and shop fair trade.  Shoppers will discover hundreds of handcrafted musical instruments, baskets, ornaments, toys and jewelry made by skilled artisans in 32 countries.

The handicrafts are marketed by Ten Thousand Villages.  Ten Thousand Villages provides vital, fair income to artisans around the world by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America.  All proceeds from the LPC Ten Thousand Villages International Festival Christmas Sale benefit Ten Thousand Villages artisan partners.  In 2003, Ten Thousand Villages sales benefited tens of thousands of artisans around the world.

Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit fair trade organization and a program of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC).  MCC is a relief, service and peace agency of the North American Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches and is headquartered in Akron, Pa.