2018 church Christmas program

Sunday December 16, 2018, brought the culmination of all the hard work Evie, Samuel, and Ezra had been doing for their church Christmas program. They had been working on it since September I think! 

Noah wanted to sit with his friends so Terry gave he, Asher, and Moses and be-quiet-and-respectful talk. 😂 They're all getting so huge!

First up was the preschoolers and kindergarteners. Last year was Ezra's infamous shouting of his songs, which was hilarious. But when Lauralee instructed all the kids to sing nicely and not yell, I told Ezra not to do it again. He obeyed and did very well...even though he was standing next to Silas again, which was who he was competing with last year.

Holding up the ornaments they had colored. 

Cute little faces. 

The preschoolers did a few songs and came to sit down with the parents and next up was the rest of the big kids. 

Quite a big group! 

I think the first song was this one, Sing a Song of Christmas. 

Hands folded.

Holding make-believe babies. 

Going to sleep. 

Hands up!

Go tell it on the mountain!

A bit of that song.




The big kids left the stage to go to changed into costume for the rest of the show and Samuel's class did a song. 

Samuel was next to Julia. 

Samuel's buddy Zachary on the top right side. 

A little bit of Samuel's part.



The program was composed of several monologues of bible characters recounting their memories of Jesus. Abigail and Henry were the married couple from the gospels whose wedding where Jesus  turned the water into wine. 

Evie's friend Shekinah was Joseph of Arimathea. I didn't recognize her because of the beard and costume. So funny!

Evie kept her part very hush hush. She didn't want me to know anything about it but wanted it to be a surprise. Someone let it slip that she was Mary Magdalene but that's all I knew. I was so impressed and proud of her! Everyone had to memorize their parts that were about two minutes long, but Evie was the most dramatic as far as I was concerned. She is my daughter of course so I am biased, but she really did do amazing!

So thoughtful...

She tried so hard not to rush all of lines out in a rush and succeeded. 

Here she is!




There were many kids who went before and after Evie, but in the end, the wiseman came and bowed before baby Jesus. I loved that. 

Then everyone came back together in costume and sang Joy to the World. 

Zooming in on Evie and Samuel. 

They are a talented group of kids!



Lauralee closed us up in prayer. She had written all the parts and organized the whole affair. She did a spectacular job. She always does!