Live Well, Laugh Often And Love Much!: FIRST PLACE!

Thursday, November 27, 2008

FIRST PLACE!

And Mary brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for him in the inn. (THE HOLY BIBLE)
This is Mark's favorite picture of the evening.

Our church family worked together to build and man a float that we entered in the Light Up Night Parade in Franklin, PA. The parade is held on the Saturday evening before Thanksgiving and is the introduction of the holiday season for our surrounding communities. Each float stopped at the half-way point while an announcer read a description of the host of each float. During this time, many judges are judging each float. We received a call from City Hall informing us that our float received 1st Place in our division!! This was very exciting for us though the main intent of entering the parade was to reach out to our community to remind them of the real meaning of Christmas, and let them know that we put on a live nativity which is yet to come. The float, which was a stable on wheels, carried Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, a king, a shepherdess, two shepherds and an angel. The float was followed by two Roman soldiers. One soldier rode a horse and the other soldier walked. We had angels and shepherds walk along side the float passing out candy canes with the legend of the candy cane imprinted on the wrapper as well as postcards announcing the dates, times and location of the Live Nativity. The float broadcasted beautiful music of the original carols helping to create the atmosphere for the picture we hoped to imprint on the minds of the parade attendees. Our float was well received by our community and the parade was attended by a couple thousand people. It was such a neat opportunity to share Jesus in this way!
CONGRATULATIONS Evangelistic Tabernacle church family! We love you!!

Here is Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus a.k.a. Mark, Laura and Nevaeh! Nevaeh did awesome and we were happy to have a wonderful memory for Nevaeh founded in our Faith! Oh! Mark's beard is real. It's kinda' nasty wearing a fake beard and wondering who slobbered into it last! Since we have the Live Nativity annually, Mark has decided he'd rather use his own God-given facial hair! I like it!

Below are various pictures preparing for the parade and the actual parade itself. Our Daryl was the Roman soldier on foot walking beside the horse, and Robbie was Angel Gabriel! I couldn't post all of the pictures or my post would be entirely too long, but these are some of my favorites. The live animals are owned and were shared with us for this event by Robert and Emily Sorrel. Robert rode his 2 year old horse and his sister Emily brought a sheep and goat. Thanks guys. It just would not have been the same without your contribution.