In August Jeff and I were called to be on the tri-ward Christmas Nativity committee. We didn't have a clue what we were getting into and the only instruction we were given was to "simplify." You betcha! So after many meetings and much work Friday and Saturday, December 5th and 6th arrived. In the past there had been a humongous theatrical pageant event reenacting the birth of Christ. Apparently 4 years ago the media even became involved since it was such a huge thing with costumes, live animals, scripts to memorize etc. Well, Jeff and I decided to throw everyone a curve ball since we're still pretty new, and do a combo of things we have been a part of in the past... A Creche Festival/Christmas concert. (if you're like most you won't know that Creche is a fancy word for Nativity.) We invited several musical numbers from the 3 wards and community to be part of our musical concert. Bottom line...huge success! We felt really good about everything and had so many nice comments about the success of the 2 nights. Our bishop wrote us the nicest Thank You card telling us that he was definitely inspired to call us to the committee to give the wards the fresh new experience that the community needed. We hope it will be a tradition to come for several years. We had so many choirs from other Churches asking to participate in it next year. We were so grateful with how everything came together. We loved working with Angela and Kirt Zavar and Jenny and Jim Debenham (our great friends who we requested to be on the committee). We were relieved that it was over because it was time- consuming and got in the way of my Christmas preparations, decorating my own house, getting Christmas cards out on time and doing anything extra for Christmas, not to mention my Primary secretary calling. (everyone had been released from their calling to be on the committee, but not me...double duty Dorthy that's me! SO BUSY!)
Now for your own personal enjoyment here is just a taste of a few nativity scenes that were present ( out of several hundred.)
This is barn we had in the center of the cultural hall where the youth from the 3 wards did a live nativity.
I wanted to bring one of my 3 nativities to join the collections... so to add variety to the evening I thought I'd bring my Relief Society homemade nativity. Don't ya just love it?! Let's just say that after this event I had a desire to invest in a couple of really nice and special nativities. I do have an olive wood one from Jerusalem that I personally picked out and brought home but I have noticed that SO many people have Olive Wood nativities too... not so original.
Ady was forced to come to one of our meetings in the beginning. For some odd reason she thought the meeting was fun and asked to go to all the rest of the meetings. She nominated herself to be the 7th member of the committee. Even in the Bishop's opening comments he recognized Adyson as a member of the committee. She thought that was awesome.
Jeff and I feeling proud of our success' and and grateful to be finished.
This is barn we had in the center of the cultural hall where the youth from the 3 wards did a live nativity.
Ady was forced to come to one of our meetings in the beginning. For some odd reason she thought the meeting was fun and asked to go to all the rest of the meetings. She nominated herself to be the 7th member of the committee. Even in the Bishop's opening comments he recognized Adyson as a member of the committee. She thought that was awesome.
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Sounds like a huge success. Then again everything you guys do seems to have a magical touch.
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