Bethlehem

On Monday, the 10th, the High School group took a bus load of FD kids to Santa Clara to a live nativity scene that a church was putting on. Below the exciting and loud bus ride along with a full complement of Camp MayMac songs!


Each high school student was responsible for one or two kids and they stayed together as they went around the place.

The church basically re-created what it may have been like in Bethlehem 2000 years ago. They built a small town in their parking lot complete with Roman soldiers controlling the crowd, booths that displayed perfume, woodworking, woolmaking, wine tasting (non-alcoholic), mud stone making, food samples, etc. Lots of people dressed up and there were lots of animals including a real camel that the wise men came in on!

Though of course some of the nativity scene was not accurate, it still told the message of Jesus' humble beginnings. I started walking around with some of the kids then I sort of stood off to the side and people watched. A feeling of actually getting a taste of what it was really like to be there during the Savior's birth came over me. There were the smells of fires, animals, and perfumes that pervaded the air. It was crowded as if everybody was there for the census. There were the shouts of the Roman soldiers keeping people in line. There were the faces of the people trying to see what was going on in this small town, especially once they heard from the shepherds what they saw out in their fields. Everyone went over to where the baby Jesus was born to see what this was all about.

2000 years later we still are doing the same thing.