A Royal Birth - The Musical
I love music, especially around Christmas time. I am blessed to work with so much and a variety of talented individuals in my different youth groups I work with everyday. As a father, and a youth minister, I can safely say that interacting with children is always challenging for adults, but as a youth minister, I need to inspire the children. At the end of last year’s Christmas pageant, I challenged them to create their own pageant s a special assignment. I wanted them to create a presentation about the birth of Jesus that was relevant to them in their lives.
The result of the year-long project was eventually titled, “A Royal Birth - The Musical,” a full—length original musical production that is written, composed, acted, produced and directed entirely by the youth of our church. It has mostly original music along with traditional public domain songs in different arrangements, all performed by our talented youth band. The whole project will be performed for a limited time to church members first, and then for a week to the public this month at our large auditorium. Some of the public dates have been sold out already, and local previews have been favorable in the media.
This semi-professional level production is really an effort by the youth, and my role has been only as a technical adviser since I have experience in writing and arranging songs along with all phases of theatrical production in the past. I exceeded my expectations and rose to the challenge. They created a production which was worth getting copywritten and published for future productions elsewhere. That’s how many major plays got started.
Children are also amazing to me. They keep me young. After setting expectations, giving them the resources needed to make things happen, the stage is, in this case, literally set. With a lot of that innocent ”I can do anything I want to” attitude used positively added to the mix, then I believe minor miracles can happen. I am proud of my kids, and I’m sure our Lord is too. It is His name that glorifies their work and efforts
Peace be you with always,
Rev. Paul Abernathy
“Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.” -2 Peter 1:2
Contact Paul Abernathy at paulabernathy@gmail.com.
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