(more) Pictures from the Christmas Pageant

Just to make sure you didn't miss the picture links in the earlier post, and to include one more, here are the online albums of the Christmas Pageant:

Mark, Jill, and Frank's

Emily's

Terra's

There are 3 videos embedded in the earlier post.

2009 Christmas Pageant Weekend

Another year and another great interpretation of the Christmas story!

We laughed, we learned (or remembered) something, and we got to see and hear our children lead worship.

My story of the weekend started on Saturday when the rehearsal ended and everyone came up to help decorate cookies. There were stations for decorating, packaging, and making tags for the cookies. We broke another record by raising $167 for a charity to be named (in the past, it has been Touching Tiny Lives). So many people baked and brought cookies that we will also be sharing them with our Food Pantry clients on Thursday this week!

Sunday Morning's service began with Confirmands (past and present) lighting the second candle on the Advent Wreath:

In the Pageant, each group of the story's characters made there entrance, prompted by our story-telling Angel to answer the question "Wow, What Does That Mean?"

and the story concluded by asking First Church to continue to spread the good news with a rousing Hymn "Joy to the World"

Additional still photos from the weekend:

• A few from cookies, pre-pageant, and pageant
• An album provided by Emily