This program provides all parishioners the opportunity to give Christmas presents to approximately 1,200 poor and needy adults, teenagers and children in the greater Detroit area. Saint Kenneth's Christian Service Commission works with different organizations and tailors its program to meet the special needs and timing of each organization it supports. The program begins in late September when the commission determines the size of the program (total number of tags), the organizations it will support and the number of tags for each organization. In early October, the organizations are contacted and they provide Saint Kennneth with the particulars of their program (how many girls, boys, women, men, etc. and their wants and needs).

Each organization is assigned a specific color and the tags (shaped like ornaments) and labels are prepared, assembled and, in mid-November, hung on the Christmas trees in the Gathering Space in the rear of Church. Then the parishioners take the tags from the trees and purchase gifts for the person identified on the tag. The tag is affixed to the presents and the bundled gifts are brought to the church Gathering Space on one of the first two weekends in December. Volunteers carry the presents from the back of church to the hall where the gifts are stored and eventually sorted by color and family (if applicable).

Two parishes out of the eight organizations that make up the program supply the names of specific individuals (a total of about 500 names or about 40% of the program), which require that care be taken to insure each person receives at least one gift. Once all the gifts are sorted and bagged up by color, they are either delivered to or picked up by the respective organizations about two weeks before Christmas. This gives the organizations time to deliver the presents to the poor and needy before Christmas day. The parishioners of Saint Kenneth are very generous to the poor and supportive of this program thus donating approximately 3,000 to 4,000 presents for the 1,200 tags. In summary, Saint Kenneth's Christmas program provides gifts to organizations that distribute those presents directly to the poor and needy. Both Saint Kenneth and these 'front line' organizations need and rely on each other to help the poor as our Lord directed.