Blogmas 2024 Day 22 (Shadow Nativity)
Today at church was our kids’ Shadow Nativity play that the kids have been working on for months. We’ve never done anything of this scale (small church things) and a lot of people worked very hard on it. When I arrived this morning, I helped with costume and props prep as well as getting footage of everything that was happening.
I had not yet actually seen a full run-through of the play. I figured it would be good. But I was truly, seriously blown away. It was just a ten-minute show with no dialogue except for narration, but it was incredibly powerful and moving in telling the entire gospel story (not stopping with just Jesus’ birth), and the kids all did an amazing job!! It was so, so well-done.
You can watch a recording of the full performance on our church’s YouTube channel, and I highly recommend that you do. Also, you can see one final short, fun, behind-the-scenes video that I made from today on our church Facebook or Instagram.
After the kids’ play, Russell also preached a short message and we took communion. The service was packed. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that many people at church on a single Sunday–we had to add more rows of chairs!! It was so exciting!
I stayed late afterward to help gather and put away all of the costumes and props. When I finally left, I went to my parents’ house because Grandpa came into town yesterday! I hung out and visited with everyone for a while, and then fell asleep on the couch.
Eventually I roused myself enough to come home and sleep for real, in my cozy, quiet bed with my kitties (except then I slept from something like 5:30-10, whoops). I woke up just as exhausted, but laid in bed with my phone working on church social media stuff for the rest of the night.
we are going to miss each other so much this week 
Today I’m grateful for: That I can finally transfer all of the promo videos/photos about the kids’ musical from the past two months to Google Drive so I can DELETE THEM OFF OF MY PHONE and free up some storage… lol.
Check out Blogmas Day 22 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016. What did you do today?
