Maple Ridge Alliance Church
20399 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge, BC
I love Christmas. What sets the Christmas season off for me is the Christmas production our church puts on every year at the beginning of December. It's called Hometown Christmas. Our entire sanctuary is transformed into this small town called Hometown, where for the past 15 years or so we have followed the lives of various different townspeople during the Christmas season. Many of the productions took place in the 1800's and lately some of them have taken place in more recent time periods. We usually have 9 performances. This year there will be seven. Performance dates and times this years are:
Sunday, Dec 8 - 3:30 and 7:30
Monday, Dec 9 7:30
Thursday, Dec 12 - 7:30
Friday, Dec 13 - 7:30
Saturday, Dec 14 - 7:30
Sunday, Dec 15 - 3:30 and 7:30
Tickets are complementary and can be picked up from the church office.You can contact the church:
Email: info@mralliance.ca
Phone: 604-465-5717
I have participated in this event for several years now. The migraines I have been having on a daily basis (24/7) have been with me for the past two Christmas productions (at least). Light and sound make them worse. So I bet you ask yourself how on earth I can stand to be there for those events. And in the SOUND BOOTH! Yes, I work in the sound booth.
Well, you see, that's the blessing part of my story. Because no matter how bad my headaches have been, and despite the fact that no one recognizes me anymore because I always have a baseball cap and major sunglasses on ALL the time, plus I wear earplug when I'm at church on Sundays, God has always given me a reprieve from the headaches so that I can do my job on performance nights and for the week before during dress rehearsals.
That doesn't mean that the headaches are gone, because they never really are, but they are manageable, and He somehow allows me to be able to focus on what I love to do. It never seems to matter how bad the headaches have been during the weeks leading up to the performances, or how bad they are during the day of the performances. God works His miracles and allows me to be part of this special time of year.
If you live in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, I invite you to come and be part of our Christmas celebration this year and receive a blessing this Christmas Season!
This is a photo of the stage portion of our set. This is only two-thirds of the full set.
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