A parade, a market, a tree lighting, Santa, carols by candlelight, and warm bread in your hands. All of it happening in one old cotton mill on McGill Avenue — and all of it for you.
Some of this is ours. Some of it belongs to the Mill and the city. We put it all in one place because it's all one Christmas.
Two miles down Church, Buffalo, and Union. Look for the SOJO float — and enter to win Cookies with Mr. & Mrs. Claus.
Dozens of Christmas vendor booths fill the Mill. Shop local, eat well, and start the season right where you live.
When the Market winds down, come upstairs. Candles, carols, hot coffee, and warm bread in your hands. Thirty minutes, no offering, no sermon. Just the oldest songs we know, sung together.
Free pictures with Santa, sent straight to your phone. Bring the kids, bring the grandparents, bring the dog if he behaves.
The whole Mill lights up. Pics with Santa, the Tree Lighting, live music, the Lake Norman Big Band, and a Kids Play Zone. Find the SOJO booth and say hello.
Carolers in the atrium, candles in a dark room, and the oldest story we know told plainly. Four services across the weekend. Bring everybody.
Since the 1700s, Moravians in North Carolina have gathered in December for something simple: candles, a sweet roll, coffee, and singing. No performance. No offering. Nobody asking you for anything.
Just people in a dark room holding small lights, eating warm bread, and singing songs older than this country about a baby who changed everything.
We want to give Concord that. Not a program we invented last year — something ancient, practiced, and true, handed to us by people who did it first.
Come hungry. Come tired.
Come exactly as you are.
Gibson Mill is full of people who build things, brew things, cook things, and sell things. Christmas is better when we do it together instead of on eleven separate calendars.
If you're doing something for Christmas, we'll put it on this page. Free, no strings, no logo swap required. This page belongs to the Mill, not to us — we just built it.
Somebody has to bake the bread, light the candles, hold the door, and hand a kid a candy cane. That somebody could be you.
Several nights and Saturdays before the parade. Cut, paint, wire, haul. Come to one or come to them all.
Sign upStage the float, ride it, walk alongside handing out invites, tear it down. Kids welcome on the float.
Sign upSing, pour coffee, pass out candles and warm bread, and welcome everyone who wanders up from the Market.
Sign upGreeters, photo line, check-in table, and the elves who keep a room full of kids happy.
Sign upWork our booth in the middle of the festival. Meet people, hand out invites, point them back here.
Sign upCarolers, candle handlers, door greeters, and parking. Four services, all hands.
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