Come Play with Me

You know how it goes: it starts as mass chaos, but somehow it comes together into a beautiful heart-warming vignette of the Savior's birth. And isn't that what the life of Jesus Christ was about? Transforming lives? 

How could you not get excited to take a step back in Jesus' time by stepping into different clothes? There was energy in the room when the pieces are passed out. And nothing that changes a person faster than a beard, 

Let There Be Light. And Sound.

Performing the pageant-play of the Nativity outside at night is no easy task. Light and sound equipment, power tools and costumes all must taken outdoors for every rehearsal. Fire ants, bad weather, and perpetual shortage of extension chords are always trying to trip us up. 

Sewing Something Special for Christmas

For 6 weeks, expert seamstress Nancy Morris has been teaching sewing classes on how to make Biblical costumes. Attendees constructed outfits for children, themselves, and clothes for actors in the Nativity pageant. We've learned how to follow a pattern, finish edges with bias tape and hemming, and get thread into those complicated machines!