Poingnant Pagent Moments

This Sunday we celebrate what God did through the 27 years of the Victoria Christmas Pageant.  It is right for us to take time to reflect, to remember and to rejoice in what God did.  As I look back on my years of involvement, a couple of moments come to mind that will stay in my memories.

Every performance as I waited in the dark for my moment to make an appeal to people toward the end, Jaime Sciba would walk by near me.  She played Mary beautifully as the mother of a baby, as the mother of a child and as the mother of the man who died on the cross.  On her way out after they had taken the body of Jesus away, she would be crying as she left the cross scene.  Not acting like she was crying, every night she was crying real tears.  Every night, it touched me.  That is a picture of the realism and the dedication that many put into pageant night after night, year after year.  Thank you Jamie and thanks to all of you who made the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus real.

The second moment was on an evening when a woman who was wheel chair bound, blind and dying of cancer came to a pageant.  We found a special place for her to be near the action so she could hear and sense it.  Afterwards, her family wheeled  her over to the Hospitality Suite.  She had a special request; she wanted to touch Jesus' face.  Mike Baker had portrayed Jesus that night; he came over and bent down so she could run her hands over his face so she could see in her mind's eye what Jesus in pageant looked like.  There were very few dry eyes among those who watched that scene.  Her family continued to come to pageant after her death.   They seemed to find comfort in it.

God did great things through the pageant.  A way we can honor Him is by coming together to celebrate the things we saw Him do.  We will do that this Sunday after the 10:45 am service.  If you have not heard, I hope you will come and stay for the lunch and the celebration.  Marking and celebrating what God has done is a great way to be ready to follow Him into the future.

For the journey...

Tim