Our worship pastor assembled a team and presented our community with a beautiful Christmas production.  While it was significantly smaller in scale than the Passion plays of the last two Easter seasons, it was spectacular nonetheless. 

Nigel and Marie had large speaking parts as Victoria and Quinn.  The premise was they were part of a group of kids who had prepared a Christmas show that was supposed to take place in the town square.  The day before they were to preform, however, the mayor cancelled the production because ratings had shown people just weren’t into that kind of religious thing.  The kids decided to go door-to-door to ask people to call the mayor’s office and request that the show be restored. 

Stewart played Thurston, an older man whose house was decked out in Christmas gear which the kids took to mean he was all about celebrating Christmas.  Turns out Thurston is all about how things look and he offered to pay the kids to leave and advised he would sue them if they ruined his lawn.  Stewart did not have many lines, but he delivered them with panache.

The group of kids also visited a hippy-couple who supported ALL religious expressions, but wouldn’t call the mayor because they didn’t want to get involved.  They finally DID find someone who was more than happy to call the mayor’s office.  The mayor’s daughter!  She’s a Believer!

Tabitha was part of the kids’ choir, one of the kids who had prepared to be part of the Christmas show that was cancelled.  She also delivered a line and sang her heart out with each of the 11 numbers. 

The show was fantastic.  Yes.  I am biased.  But really.  It was.  Johanna LOVED watching it and exclaimed a few times that she liked the songs and that those were “her kids.”  Katriel hung out in the nursery after a few minutes of paper chewing with Nan before it started. 

It was a dream come true for me for my family to be part of a production like this in our own church.  Our older kids were fortunate enough to take part in similar productions at another church in the area a few years ago.  To see our own church family GROW to have enough children to even consider such a production is a blessing in and of itself.  To have a worship pastor willing to work with kids is such a treat.  He worked hard to find a musical with a relevant message and the songs had awesome, scripture-centered lyrics.  I hope they stick in my kids’ minds for years.