What Child Is This?
Christmas carolers on your front lawn are always a welcome surprise, but the singers got a surprise of their own a few years ago in Vacaville, California.
The group from Church of the New Covenant made the rounds of several elderly families, brightening the air with songs and letting children present their handmade gifts. Then the bus began heading away from the residential streets toward the open country. "Finally we stopped by an old barn," says Colleen Britton, coordinator of Christian education. "Voices and flickering lanterns beckoned us to come inside.
"There in a corner we found Mary and Joseph—high school students in costume—watching over the babe in the manger. The scene seemed so real with the smell of straw on the floor and the noises of animals in the barn. It took us all back nearly 2,000 years.
"We listened with an even greater sense of awe as the Christmas story from Luke was read by candlelight."
The evening ended with a final stanza of "Silent Night," followed by hot chocolate and donuts on the cold December night in the stable.
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