 |
GFU alum named Corps' top chaplain
Celebrating Christmas from a
different perspective
Pastoral Pondering: It's good to
give
thanks for all our many blessings
A
variety show
broadcast to the masses |
Newberg Christian Church will present `Grapes
and Hazelnuts' Dec. 12-14 |
By Schellene Clendenin, Newberg
Graphic reporter
E-mail Schellene at sclendenin@eaglenewspapers.com
|
It will be a variety show with a live audience broadcast by the Newberg
Christian Church.
Commercial spoofs will regale listeners with the value of “Santa’s
little helpers,” caps that provide enough pressure to render overexcited children
unconscious. The Upperrespitory Band will play and choirs will sing.
Worship Pastor Vincent Pray said he hopes people do not confuse the event,
called “Grapes and Hazelnuts,” with a play.
“It’s going to be really cool,” he said. “It’s not a
play about a radio show. It’s a real, current, modern radio show like you would hear
on OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting).”
The show will include a wide variety of entertainment, including some classy
stuff and hilarious skits. The show is centered around Christmas and will be broadcast to
the parking lot of the church.
“If you drove by the church you could pick it up (on the radio),”
Pray said. “We are inviting people to come be part of live studio audience and free
tickets will be available this weekend.”
Pray said he came up with the idea for the show in the spring. “The Lord
gave me the idea,” he said. “I was listening to a radio show and I thought,
‘Man that would be awesome. Nobody is doing that around here.’”
Setting up the performance took a while, even with a team of 20 to 25 people writing the
script, organizing the show, figuring out which skits to perform and rehearsing choir
numbers.
The church will use a receiver that it has used to broadcast a live nativity
in past Christmases.
This year the church is not accepting acts, just audience members to the
show. But Pray said, “If we do this again we might try to audition acts earlier
on.”
The idea is to reach out to the community and put Christ back into Christmas,
he said. And the church is asking its congregation to invite friends, family and coworkers
who don’t know the Lord.
The ideas to be portrayed in the broadcast, Pray said, are an interesting
combination of commercials, among them Santa’s little helper, a tattoo remover
that’s more like a drill, a children’s theater segment, a quiz show for the
audience and a Christmas carol sing along.
“It’s not a Gong Show,” Pray said. “It’s really
classy and a funny great show.”
Shows begin at 7 p.m. Dec. 12, 13 and 14. Doors open at 6 p.m. The church is
located at 2315 Villa Road. Come early for complimentary photos with St. Nick.
For free tickets contact the church office at 503-538-3104. Coordinators ask
audience members to bring an item of food to donate to Newberg F.I.S.H. (Friends In
Service to Humanity). |
|
From Nov. 29,
2003, Newberg Graphic
Click Here to Subscribe |
|
|
