Join us for the Sixth-Annual MCC Family Fall Festival. This year, we will have halal food trucks, a unique interactive animal show, goodie bags, and more!
Join us for fishing activities, potato sack races, face painting, freeze dance, Knowledge Quest, a special kid’s halaqa, and more! This is a family event!
We have added an Ilm Quest to activities this year, so we need more help! Teen volunteers needed: https://mcceastbay.org/fest-volunteer
At registration, children will receive a wristband assigned to them at five levels: Level A (ages 0-3), Level B (ages 4-8), Level C (ages 9-12), and Level D (ages 13-17). They will then go on a trivia quest around the prayer hall and answer age-appropriate questions about the Qur’an and Seerah for prizes. Volunteers mark participants’ punch cards for each correct answer. The more correct answers, the larger the reward.
Study questions are available here and will also be emailed to registered parents: https://mcceastbay.org/study-questions
RSVP is requested so we can have enough goodie bags and activities for all children. This popular annual event is positively capped at 300 children. Customes discouraged.
Monday, October 31 | 4:45 p.m. (Asr) to 8 p.m. (Isha) Ages 2 – 17 | $2.00 per child | Parents entrance (and children under 2) are free
- – RSVP at mcceastbay.org/fall-fest
- – Special need families, RSVP (for free) at https://mcceastbay.org/muhsen-fall
Our special needs family guests receive free food vouchers for every member of the family attending, fast passes for all activities, goody bags at registration time, special seating during the animal show, and quiet space, if necessary. Questions? Please email MUHSEN special needs coordinator Ayah Refai at help@mcceastbay.org
Parents: We will have two halal food trucks (Halal Bites of Chicago and myPunjab Food Truck) serving drinks and yummy fresh and fast halal food. If you don’t want to wait in line for fresh dinner that evening, you can also pre-pay for a beef or chicken burger + fries ($10.75/box) from iniBurger Gourmet Burgers or a cheese pizza slice ($1.25) from Simply Pizza.
Parents: Please do not bring children in costume. Please watch this sermon to see why MCC has made this annual investment to put on annually this popular event attended by hundreds of children: https://mcceastbay.org/halloween-sermon
Community vendors: This event is focused on children. The organizers have decided not to host our community vendors so that we can entirely focus on providing the best time for our kids attending this annual event.
Schedule (see facility map at https://mcceastbay.org/facilty-map):
- – 4:45 p.m. – Asr Prayers (Prayer Hall) and registration begins at the entrance
- – 5 p.m. – Fishing activity, potato sack races, face painting, freeze dance, corn hole, food & pizza, and Ilm Quest (Prayer Hall, Banquet Hall & Conference Room)
- – 6:13 p.m – Maghrib Prayers (Prayer Hall)
- – 6:30 p.m. – High-energy children’s halaqa with Sahar Javed (Prayer Hall – will also be live-streamed)
- – 7 p.m. – Special live puppet show entertainment (Prayer Hall) – will also be live-streamed)
- – 7:45 p.m. – Gift bags for all! (Conference Room)
- – Isha – 8 p.m. (Prayer Hall)
Questions? events@mcceastbay.org
