Christmas Pageant Practice Begins!

CHRISTMAS EVE PAGEANT REHEARSALS START DECEMBER 7: Calling toddlers, children and teens! Join St. Michael’s Christmas Eve pageant and help bring the Nativity to life for our parish! We’ve been doing our own Vermont Nativity for several years now and will continue to do so, modifying to fit the company and adding, of course, any new elements that pageanteers invent. Recent pageants, for instance, have been blessed with flocks of free-range angels!

Here are the roles we need to fill:  innkeeper’s assistant, innkeeper,  Mary, Joseph, Angel Gabriel, angels, shepherds, wise wo/men, starbearer,  and readers (all 10- to 18-year-olds are welcome as readers!) We’ll rehearse:  Sunday mornings 9:00-10:00 a.m. (during Sunday school) starting December 7, when we’ll talk briefly about the story we’ll tell and hear what role each child would like to play. On December 14 and 21, the rehearsals will be more detailed. In addition, we’ll have a session with readers only at a mutually convenient time. Dress rehearsal will be on December 23 at 4 PM. The pageant will be at 4:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December 24.

We invite kids from outside the Parish to join in, too. If you have friends from school or the neighborhood who’d like to be part of the pageantry, please encourage them to come to do so. For more information and to sign up, contact Annie Landenberger, 348-7156, verbatim@svcable.net. Watch for more information and a list of other adult contacts in upcoming Sunday Bulletins.