Pasadena’s leading homeless service provider, Union Station Homeless Services, held a holiday market Wednesday bringing together participants from Union Station’s housing programs for a day filled with crafts, cookie decorating, holiday music and dinner.

The event, at the nonprofit’s Family Center, gave parents and guardians a chance to select donated gifts for their children. The gifts were collected through the organization’s annual Holiday Drive.

This will provide them with a shopping experience they might otherwise be unable to afford or would have to manage within limited budgets, officials at the nonprofit said.