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Bethlehem: A Live Nativity

Celebrate Christmas story
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In the true spirit of the season, Bethlehem: A Live Nativity, will be held in Rimbey, symbolizing in a special and unique way, the Christmas story.

Bethlehem: A Live Nativity is to be held Sun. Dec 3 at 5 and 6:30 p.m. and will take place at the Alliance Church grounds at 4620 - 54th Ave.

Terry Oake, chairman of the event said that instead of the traditional Bethlehem Walk, this year organizers decided to put out seating for the crowd so they don’t have to walk through ploughed snow to visit the various stations.

Once seated, spotlights will move over each station and narrators will tell the story as it relates to each scene.

After the spotlight has been held over the last station and the narrator has finished talking, the crowd is welcome to pet the animals that have taken part in the live nativity.

A free chili supper and hot chocolate will be served in the Alliance Church after each showing.

The live nativity includes several stations where actors dressed in appropriate costumes will do their part to depict the walk Mary and Joseph took to Bethlehem where the baby Jesus was born.

The age-old Biblical story is re-created through the help of local farmers including Barry and Gloria Nesbitt who bring in hay and live animals as well as through a sound system and special lighting.

“Terry Oake, chairman of the Bethlehem Walk committee said the volunteer help for the event amazing.

“It is hosted by the Alliance Church, but every church in the community is represented by someone.”

The walk begins appropriately with an actor portraying Mary who is visited by the angel Gabriel.

Actors dressed as tax collectors accept monetary and food donations for the Rimbey Food Bank at the second station.

And, the third station is set up as an inn where there is no vacancy.

The fourth station is a shepherds’ camp where actors dressed as shepherds mill about talking about the wonders they have seen.

Members of The Christian Reform Church choir dressed in white robes portraying angels singing of Jesus’ birth make the fifth station a truly magnificent, awe inspiring part of the live nativity.

And finally, in the lowly manger in the hay is the baby Jesus, the three wise men and Mary and Joseph, surrounded by livestock which concludes the Christmas story.