Christmas Pageant, “Breathing Life into Hope,”

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Our children and youth will share this year’s Christmas Pageant, “Breathing Life into Hope,” during worship on Sunday, December 14. This year, our young people are exploring how God breathed life into the first person, and that breath, or the spirit of God, guided the patriarchs, inspired the prophets, and was fully revealed to us through the birth and teachings of Jesus. Now we carry forward that breath of God, as we are the body of Christ in the world today.

After the service, join us in the fellowship hall for lunch and hands-on activities in Bethlehem Village.

Please plan to attend and invite your family and friends to join you!

Pageant Volunteers Needed

As you may have noticed, there is a growing number of families with children and youth in our congregation. What a blessing! This also means that we need even more volunteers to help lead up to, during, and after the Christmas pageant. Please contact Stephanie (smmiller@kentmethodist.com if you can help with any of the following.

Trying costumes on children on Sunday mornings
Making new costumes for our cast, which is growing both in number and in height
Helping put costumes away the week after the pageant
Because we like the families of the participants to be able to focus just on getting their children dressed and then enjoying the service, we need volunteers to help children know where to go when we rehearse on December 7 (including lunch following worship), December 13 (dress rehearsal), and the morning of the pageant
Set up on Monday, December 8, and teardown/store on December 15
Calling potential volunteers who may not have realized their help was needed
Helping with lunch on December 7 after worship and possibly breakfast the day of the pageant

It truly takes a village to help this pageant go smoothly for the young people who are already learning and giving a lot of their time, energy, and heart to this greatly anticipated worship service.

Pageant Rehearsal Schedule

For children (through grade 5), most rehearsals will take place in choirs and between 12:00 and 12:20 on Sunday mornings. (Not all children will be called to stay for the 12:00-12:20 practice every week.) Start date for 12:00-12:20 TBD.

For youth, the majority of rehearsals will be held during regularly scheduled Youth Arts sessions from 12:30 to 1:15.