When I first met Betsy Christenson I thought she was a one of a kind collector. However, since editing this page and writing blogs, I...

Our FOTC board met in April and, as expected, one of the business items from a 2 year Covid-19/no in-person convention-annual meeting...

The poster Susan Duke Waters printed for her latest exhibit of "Oh Holy Night" shows the amazing detail of her stunning "life size" wire...

Catchy title - but not exactly the truth - Friends of the Creche has been digital for many years. Facebook, email, Webpages have been...

If you don't know Helen (FOTC Secretary) and Bill Holder (Nativity enabler) you may not know something rather important about her...

Forwarded Message First Name: Gloria Last Name: Dodd Email: gdodd1@udayton.edu Subject: Invitation to Fr. Roten's talk on Creches on Dec....

Fasten your seatbelts. This is going to be FANTASTIC.

The 2022 annual meeting will be held on St. Simons Island, Georgia at the Moore Methodist Museum/Epworth by the Sea on November 12. The...

November 6th - 9 a.m. Pacific Time, 10 a.m. Mountain Time, 11 a.m. Central and Noon Eastern. The link will open 30 minutes prior to the...

This is a picture of one of the shepherds, hand carved in wood from my Rwanda crèche. I wondered what the pointy thing was sticking up...

What time is it? Look closely at this clock made by Harry Mushenheim. He had an old battery operated clock mechanism and his wife, Ceal,...

Perhaps you were unaware of our 100% volunteer Organization status. Friends of the Creche depends on all of them. Perhaps the most...

Dear Friends of the Creche Membership And just when it all looked good…BAM…another wave of Covid-19, this one more ambitious than the...

Usually when you start a story about collecting nativities one starts at the beginning. However, Covid-19 has caused us all to start with...

Here's a great idea from Kathleen Conrad November 21, 2021 from 1:00-4:00 PM- A Make and Take Tour of the Bethlehem Cave and Nativity...

SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 20021 Important information about the Portland Oregon Convention. Here's the link: Neil neilwallen@frontier.com is...

Michelle Devitt Here’s an idea….. Many FOTC members are asking themselves ‘what will I do with my collection’? I have laid awake at night...

#25. The Bannner is really cool. The Allens sent their daughter to Art School for this! #24 You will see rare nativities! #23. You will...