So here’s a quiz for you…What do you get when you add two days of work, over fifty volunteers (my estimate), musicians galore, dozens of animals, gobs of cookies and over 1350 visitors? Yeah, you guessed it; you get the 2009 Live Nativity at Beulah UMC. This was my first time here, as either a helper or a spectator, and it was impressive…very impressive! Now, I want you to know it wasn’t the 3 miles of luminaries, or the cutouts, or the live animals, or the scenery, or the music, or the cookies, or even the fellowship that impressed me…though each of those were certainly impressive…I was impressed by the spirit of the event, because that spirit was holy. From the beginning of Friday to the late hours of Saturday (or was it the wee hours of Sunday?) there was a powerful presence of God’s Holy Spirit moving among us. I have attended live nativities before and I’ve worked at some…but I have never felt the presence of God so real among the workers and visitors as I felt here at Beulah. Now it could just be that I was more receptive to the Spirit’s leading this year (I think being here at Beulah does that to a person!)…but early on I sensed a Spirit of purpose and surrender that took our feeble efforts and used them to point to the One whose birth we were honoring. Great job Beulah…I cannot wait to see what next year brings...I'll try to get pictures up soon on the website.
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