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The Zoom Christmas Pageant!

December 3, 2020 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Zoom Christmas pageant

Okay, it’s December. It’s Advent. Christmas is coming. But it’s also a pandemic, and church is back to being online, not in person. How are we going to have a Christmas pageant? It’s time for the Zoom Christmas Pageant! The Zoom Christmas Pageant! A few years back I wrote a Christmas play. Better to say […]

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Christmas Play World Premier!

December 17, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen 7 Comments

Christmas Play World Premier

It really happened! I wrote a play (with a great deal of help from Matthew, Luke and John, and the kind permission of the folks at Crossway) and I got to see it produced. My friend Claudia in New Zealand said in the comments of an earlier post that she’d like to see it. So […]

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Director’s Journal: Dress Rehearsal

December 16, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Saturday afternoon. Dress rehearsal time. This is our last chance: 90 minutes to bring it all together before Sunday’s performance in worship. I opened in prayer and explained the game plan: first a run through, then costuming, then our dress rehearsal. A very tight hour and a half. But there was one thing to do before […]

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Director’s Journal: Getting Ready

November 11, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

So I wrote this Christmas Play, and of course I gave a copy to my pastor. Who knows?” I thought. “They always do a play in Advent. Maybe they will think it is fun to produce the world premier!” They said yes! Woo hoo! I should know by this time that this amounted to volunteering […]

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Christmas Play: Giving You Back Your Treasures

November 6, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

Christmas Play

There really is a common thread holding together all the posts on my blog. (Well, almost all of them.) Let’s see if you can find it. What do the following have in common: A post on a saint from the Middle Ages. A post on a section of the Heidelberg Catechism. A post on a classic […]

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