Decorating Downtown Crosses: Saturday, April 19th at 6:00 p.m. at Pioneer Park - Corner of Woodland Blvd. and Rich Avenue.

Come join in the fun of DeLand's 18th year of Crosses for Christ.  Each year on the Saturday before Easter, churches, families and individuals sponsor a wooden cross with wire to be decorated with provided 5 gallon buckets of cut carnations and fern for starters.  The sponsors find their cross and decorate it with the pre-cut flowers/greenery.   Imagination has no limits here as many folks add different flowers, greenery, ribbon, and even battery-powered lights to their crosses. 

First Christian Church has been part of this downtown tradition ever since its inception.  The crosses are carefully watched over and watered overnight so that on Easter Sunday Morning, all of DeLand can walk or drive up and down Woodland Blvd. and some side streets to see the Christian symbolic witness of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on this special day.