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focus on Christ

living nativity

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esigned and built by

Mr. David Fitzgerald, the liv­

ing nativity set, complete with

faculty and staff portraying

Bible characters, was the fo­

cal point of the Christmas

banquet. “Our objective was

to cause those in attendence

to be focused on the real rea­

yrr
son for the season,” Mr. t

Fitzgerald said.

w ^ reeting all who enter

the campus, the security

shack has never looked

brighter. Atul Gopalan, Joe

Hogrefe, and Mike Morgan

decked out the guard shack

with 500 lights.

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HAT do sheep and donkeys have in common with young L osing for a picture at

ladies in formal dresses, young men in suits, and faculty the banquet, Amanda Burke

and Derek Van Dervort en­
and staff in the kitchen? This scene best described the an­ joyed the event. “I enjoyed

nual Christmas banquet. “We’ve never done [a living nativ­ the company at my table the

ity] before, and it seemed a good idea since it was different most, especially Amanda,”

Derek said.
than anything we have done in the past and such an appro­

priate theme for this special season,” Mrs. Lynn Smith said,

one of the staff who helped prepare the stage set.

“Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes,

lying in a manger.” (Luke 2:12) Even on a Christian cam­

pus, students, faculty, and staff can easily get caught up in

“the commercialism” of Christmas. The nativity reminded

all that Christmas is not about several weeks off, another

delicious meal, decorations, or presents under a tree. “Think­

ing about God and thinking how God understands what we

go through because He lived here on earth is something I try

to think about around Christmas,” Sarah Svoboda said.

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