Opening day of our Christmas play "The Kingdom of Giving" went off very well as the kids and adults out performed themselves before a full house of people. This little 3 act play was written by three of the children within our congregation and directed by one of our elders. The story is about a Kingdom that lost the meaning of Christmas by focusing on getting things from one another, throwing parties, and of course shopping. The people in the Kingdom get wrapped up in the whole process of preparing for the holiday that it creates a number problems for King Majestic. As the King he must make unpopular judgments to protect his subjects - sometimes from each other. Seeing that the King is weary of dealing with such things Miser the Advisor takes advantage of the situation to convince King Majestic to cancel Christmas forever. The situation gets so bad that Miser is having a number of the King's subjects thrown in the dungeon. Meanwhile several of the children, depressed that Christmas has be cancelled, set their hearts on trying to find the true meaning of Christmas. They take this journey in hopes that they can restore Christmas to its proper place within the Kingdom. At the Library they discover some history books that leads they to the Bible. Mrs. Bequite, the librarian, is unable to find a Bible in her collection of books and steers them to Pastor Lost Hisway. After a brief discussion with the Pastor, who rarely reads the Bible in fear of damaging it pages, they learn that Christmas, the church and the Bible are just symbols that the people are good. He trys to sway them that they should just go run play and not trouble their thoughts about such matters. The children are persistent enough that the Pastor lends them his Bible. They soon discover within the Bible the true origins of Christmas and run off to tell the King. When they arrive Miser the Advisor is trying to convince the King to throw another one of his subjects into the dungeon. As soon as the children mention Christmas Miser is determine to have the whole lot taken away by Dungeon Dan. The children make one last heart felt plea by telling the King that the story of Christmas was about another King who tried to protect his people from their sins. This is enough to get King Majestic's attention that he begins to read the Bible to the children thus learning the truth about Christmas. Upon the discovery of the truth he restores the celebration of Christmas throughout the Kingdom. Here are a few photos for you to enjoy.
Here the children are singing one of the songs in the market place.
King Majestic getting some help from Yappy and Snappy.
Miser the Advisor warning Lester the Jester about interrupting with his bad jokes.
The children are singing a song as they just get done with the visit with Pastor Lost Hisway.
King Majestic reading to the children about the true menaing of Christmas from the Bible.
Visitors and members congregate in the kitchen for coffee and cookies at the conclusion of the play.
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