Sun. evening Chris, Nancy & I drove to Salinas, CA to see the Streets of Bethlehem Christmas display put on by the First Baptist Church. It was in the parking lot surrounding the church and requires about 300 people to put it on and it is free. They take you through in groups of 300. The first area you enter portrays the King and the tax collector. They do a little skit about the arrogance of the King and his wife and about collecting the taxes. We then went past a lot of merchants as well as animals in pens etc. You could eat some bread that was typical of the time and see bracelets being made as well as many other things. The next section portrayed the inn. The skit there was of the inn keepers wife & son talking of getting the stable ready for use as the Inn was full. Joseph then entered with Mary on a donkey. The Inn keeper wanted to charge then to stay in the stable but the wife and son pleaded with him to let them stay for free. The next section we went into portrayed the Sheppard's on the hill side. The angel then appeared and the Sheppard's rushed over to that hill. After they went back to the hillside a group of young ladies appeared as angels below the first angel that announced the birth of the babe in the manger. Then the scene shifted the manger scene showing Joseph, Mary & the baby Jesus surrounded by angels with a large live angel in the sky overhead. After leaving there we went past the 3 crosses that that represented Jesus & the two robbers hanging on the cross. Also they had a large pen of sheep & goats for the children to interact with. To add to the authenticity of the whole thing the entire area was covered with straw.
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