Pastor the Rev. Roger Jackson, who portrays “King Herod” with Mary and Joseph, second and third from proper, with Child Jesus, and the solid of the pageant, “Good Retains His Promise.”
Picture by Nelson A. King
With the theme “God Retains His Promise,” Sunday Faculty kids at Fenimore St. United Methodist Church (FSUMC) in Brooklyn introduced a lot nostalgia to congregants and invitees as they celebrated their Second Annual Christmas Pageant to rave evaluations.
Christmas celebrants braved the bitterly chilly climate — with a excessive of about 28 levels — to see the kids, guided by their academics, assistants, mother and father, and grandparents, carry out spectacularly through the two-hour-long pageant that centered on the delivery of Jesus Christ.
“Why is celebrating Christmas so necessary for Christians at the moment?” requested Linda Brown in co-narrating the third and closing a part of the pageant. “We might rejoice in numerous methods, however this Christmas, allow us to journey again in time, by Hebrew Scripture, to recall the delivery of Jesus as a success of a promise God made way back.
“Our God is a devoted God, and God retains his guarantees,” she pressured.
The Sunday Faculty kids portrayed angels, shepherds, and clever males, amongst different roles, within the pageant coordinated by Assistant Sunday Faculty instructor Joycelyn King, who was born in Antigua. Superintendent Gail Murray, who was born in Jamaica, assisted King and academics Veronica Corbett and Debra Hull. Jamaican-born Chaplain Selena Lubell served as Mistress of Ceremonies.
The church’s pastor, the Rev. Roger Jackson, portrayed “Herod the King.“
Earlier within the pageant, the Reward and Worship Workforce warmed up the congregation with Christmas Carols; Sis. Joycelyn King meditated on Mark 9: 36: “He took just a little youngster whom he positioned amongst them…”; Shanae Als spoke, through video, about celebrating kids world wide; the kids and the congregation learn a litany for youngsters (Mark 9: 30-37); Fafane Bein-Aime and Densa Belony prayed in Spanish and Haitian Creole, respectively; and Belony and her son, Daen Blemur, blew the roof off with a tune, “The Prayer,“ prompting a standing ovation and sustained applause.
“I don’t know why I’m mist up once I see a toddler carry out,“ mentioned Lubell immediately. “That’s our future.”
In Half II, the kids learn poems and literature and carried out with musical devices: What Christmas Means To Me by Akiera Goodman; Sweet Cane by Daen Blemur; Bethlehem by Chase King; Piano Choice by Noelani Charles; Christmas Giving by Nicholas and Noelani Charles; As soon as Upon a Christmastime by Kaiden Goodman; Piano Choice by Anelia Gordon; Drum Choice by Nicholas Williams; A Track Was Heard At Christmas by Angelica Nedd; and Christmas Star by Anelia Gordon.
The solid concluded the pageant by singing lustily “Pleasure to the World,“ and the congregation joined.
