Christmas Comes Alive in Vallecito

Saturday night our church performed a live nativity called "Christmas Comes Alive in Vallecito". (That may sound a little familiar to our Gordo readers! Ours was very small scale) Now that we have the covered drive through on the new building, we enclosed it with tarps, put in some gas heaters and created our barn. It was a perfect spot!

The drama started off in the sanctuary with a prophesy by Isaiah....

Then the guides walked them out to see the shepherds and the angels that appeared to them.....

And then into the barn for the presentation of the nativity.....

It was short and sweet but hopefully a reminder to our community of the real meaning of Christmas! God is so amazing......the weather was bad all day, snowing and blowing but at the time we got there to set up, the snow stopped and subsided until after we were done! Our fear was that the weather would keep people from driving up to see it and it possibly did, but we still had around 85 come through it and had to do 7 performances. So it was a great first year and it's always great to work with your church family on a project to glory our Lord!

Here's more shots of the night.....

We had a sheep, a donkey, and two goats that were the hit of the night for all the kids!

Haven's favorite was Cecil the donkey.....

Below is Steve and Nancy Walb, two of the greatest teachers of God's word. I've learned so much from these two since we've been here

Merry Christmas from the Owen family and we can't wait to see many of you next week!