December 26, 2009
Cape Verde Project Christmas Program
With all the Christmas season rush I am finally getting around to posting pictures of our Christmas program hosted on Tuesday by the Novo Juazeiro church. The purpose of this program was to raise support for the participants in the Cape Verde Project.
When the opportunity for this fundraiser first presented itself I set about to writing a script. Using our Cidade Feliz characters I wrote a story that "borrowed" elements of O'Henry's The Gift of the Magi, with a Christ-focused application. Once the script was written, we set out to design and build the set.
Here Nice and her daughter, Alane, work on one of the Styrofoam backdrops, made to represent the front of a house...
...while her husband Cícero paints one of the walls.
Our original plan was to do our presentation outside, as people dined. As you may be able to guess from the picture, however, God had other plans.
As it became obvious that the weather was not going to permit an outside presentation we moved everything into the sanctuary. As it turned out, God's plan was actually better than ours (go figure!) as the 300+ people packed into the auditorium would have had difficulty seeing our presentation had it been held outdoors.
The presentation went off without a hitch.
A great feature of this program was the musical participation of our "Christmas Troubadours".
Afterward I made a brief application and then introduced the team.
During the dinner that followed, our new character, Miudinho (translation: Tiny) visited all the tables asking for donations for the Cape Verde Project. He was a big hit, except with my son Nathanael, who was terrified of him.
In all, about $400 was raised during the evening.
For more information on the Cape Verde Project, click here.
Talk back to the missionary: Have a memorable Christmas program moment to share? Tell us about it in the comments section.
Posted by Andrew on December 26, 2009 2:42 PM.
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Posted by: aggie haik at December 30, 2009 7:38 PM
Too bad Aggie. I would have loved to have read the ooodles that your wrote.
Posted by: Andrew 
at December 31, 2009 5:17 PM
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oh no just wrote oooooodles and it didn't go thru man this m,odern tech is gonna send me to the grave soon and that would be ok with me not writying anjy more inj case this doesn't go thru either