Christmas Eve Program

[pastorkeith]

OK, I've just spent the last three hours assigning parts for the Sunday school Christmas Eve Program and it got me wondering who out there is a veteran of said programs and what your most memorable part was...
let the interesting recollections , truths, half-truths and outright lies begin.
pastorkeith

[Redwolf]

We have a great picture of my husband at about age 7 or so, dressed as an angel for the Christmas pageant...with a black eye and a big bandaid on his face! He actually, really, truly walked into a door, which is where the black eye came from, and the bandaid was for an infected chicken pox scar, but he looks like he'd been in a barroom brawl! The littlest (fallen!) angel!

Then there was the year my two-year-old daughter played a sheep, and it took three fifth-grade "shepherds" to control her during the service! She kept crawling up and down the aisles saying "baaaaa! baaaaa!" as loudly as she could, while the poor shepherds were grabbing any part of her costume they could get a grip on to haul her back into position at the manger!

This is a Lessons and Carols story rather than a Christmas pageant one, but I'll never forget the year we almost blew up the church! Our church has old, 19th century gaslights, which we light for evening services. The choir had complained about the strong gas smell all during rehearsal, but nobody really took it seriously until one of the little 9-year-old acolytes passed out right there in front of God and everybody! We turned off the gaslights and opened all the doors (and called PG&E the next morning). We learned later that, when the gas is strong enough to start knocking people out, you've pretty much got enough for an explosion...and, of course, there were candles everywhere.

Who says church is boring!

Redwolf

[djm]

Well, there was the Christmas concert when I was the opening act for Elvis (this is just before the aliens abducted him for the fifth time) my last guitar string broke. And then there was the time I was supposed to open for Led Zepplin when they were playing the local bingo hall for a charity, but no-one had told the security guards about me, and they wouldn't let me in. Sure, I gots loads o' dem.

djm

[Walden]

OK, I've just spent the last three hours assigning parts for the Sunday school Christmas Eve Program and it got me wondering who out there is a veteran of said programs and what your most memorable part was...

I played Joseph, one year, with my sister as Mary.
I played Joseph, another year, with my cousin as Mary.
I played a Wise Man, one year, using a copy of the New Testament as the gift I was carrying.
I played Herod one year.
My sister played the Christ Child, one year, when she was about 2 months old.

[evenstr]

In sixth grade I was in the choir for our pageant. I had a solo on one of the verses for "O Come All Ye Faithful." I was very nervous, but sang it quite well (if I remember correctly). My parents, of course, said it was wonderful, but parents are supposed to say that.

[Lambchop]

I was a choir filler for a number of years . . . "You stand here and don't sing . . . just move your mouth."

This did not improve my self-esteem, although I was grateful not to be ostracized entirely.

[sbfluter]

I think I might have been in one of those things but I honestly have no memories about it.

I do remember how much fun it was to stick my finger in the melting wax of the candles we all got to hold during the chandlelight service.

[feadogin]

Well, there was the Christmas concert when I was the opening act for Elvis (this is just before the aliens abducted him for the fifth time) my last guitar string broke. And then there was the time I was supposed to open for Led Zepplin when they were playing the local bingo hall for a charity, but no-one had told the security guards about me, and they wouldn't let me in. Sure, I gots loads o' dem.

djm

I can tell you are lying because you misspelled Led Zeppelin.

[djm]

Of all the typos in all the gin joints ....

djm

[Lambchop]

This is what happens when you're full of beans, djm.

[WyoBadger]

When I was around 13 I was coerced, threatened, and blackmailed into being "the Rainbow Man."

I am still emotionally scarred.

Tom

[JamieGO]

When I was in kindergarden, I went to Catholic school. It was a requirement that we participate in the Christmas shows and everyone was organized by class.

At the end of my classes performance, I grabbed the microphone of the microphone holder, and said something to the crowd (probably at least 250 people), I don't remember what I said but the fact that I did that didn't make the principal or teacher very happy. The audience, however, was cracking up.